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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.

Tote more nukes than a little bit

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nov 9 2008, 1:01 PM ET Comment

What are you, an idiot...

Poland's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned an opposition member of parliament who said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's victory was a triumph for al Qaeda.

"Someone regarded by the (American) Republican right as a crypto-communist has become the leader of the world's greatest power ... and al Qaeda are rubbing their hands with glee that the new president wants peace, not war," Artur Gorski of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party told parliament last week.

"The black messiah of the new left has crushed the Republican candidate John McCain, and America will soon pay a high price for this quirk of democracy," he added.

"Obama is an approaching catastrophe. This marks the end of white man's civilisation," he said in an address.

To which, I say...wait for it...Awesome.

When I read this, I kept thinking, "Does the fool not realize he can catch a nuke for that?" And then I thought of that scene in Don't Drink Your Juice In The Hood where O-Dog, spoofing Ice Cube, pulls out the ICBM...."We got a problem here? We got a problem here???"

Yes, yes, I'm dead wrong. So very very wrong.



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