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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.

Fools

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 18 2008, 10:00 AM ET Comment


Sgwhite gives us the following:

Memo to all other married N.F.L. players, never EVER go to a strip club that has cameras on the inside, with your jump off, on the same night your teammate shoots himself in the leg.
Jeebus, the news just keeps getting worse and worse for Antonio Pierce of the Giants. In a minute I am betting him and Plaxico are gonna have a Shaq/Kobe beef going over all the trouble Plax has got him in. But I have to ask, who goes into a strip club that has cameras in it? I can just about guarantee you that "Head Quarters" is about to see a significant drop in business. Ill just tease you with the lead to the whole story, but you GOTTA go to the New York Post website to to see just how bad the put him on blast as only the Post can.
Seems Pierce went to a strip-club with another woman right before going to the club with Plax--where Plax proceeded to shoot himself. I think this is why it's hard to repeat in football. People who were tough a season earlier start thinking it was easy. And people who were always shaky reveal themselves to be who you knew they were all along.


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