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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.

A quick rant

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 12 2008, 11:58 AM ET Comment

Here is an unfriendly reminder about thread-jacking. Don't do it. If you're unhappy with the selection of topics--send me an e-mail and suggest something you want to hear about. I will do my best to work it in.

Rudeness is probably my greatest pet peeve, and the internet doesn't change that. The thread-jacker is a man who comes to the Christmas party dressed as the Easter Bunny, and then demands that everyone else dress as the Easter Bunny too.

For the 99 percent, who've never even considered thread-jacking, I apologize for this rant. I reserve the right, every once in a while, to be an asshole myself.


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