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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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So it's hiddey-ho, as I pick out my 'Fro...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nov 26 2008, 11:30 AM ET Comment

Someone mentioned this yesterday and comments, I decided to dig it up. Looking back on this, man this stuff is harsh. Talk about un-PC--you can even hear it in the audience's reaction. But still hilarious. And made all the more hilarious by the fact that the Smother Bros were doing the singing, as one of the commenters mentioned. Just to show how it's all connected, Bill Cosby once sucker-punched Tommy Smothers. I bullshit you not.




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