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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.

Hope all is well, kiss the plantiff and the wifey...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 8 2008, 9:00 AM ET Comment

Hertzberg knuckles up with O'Reilly. I will never understand how a guy like O'Reilly, who has one of the biggest bully pulpits in media, could be so sensitive. One interesting thing about Bill, and other conservatives, is they almost seem to crave the approval of the elite "Upper West Side/Georgetown cocktail party crew" they denounce. I don't much understand how O'Reilly took such offense--I heard jibes worse than this back in seventh grade, watching two kids crack on each other. I think Jay said it best--"Sensitive thugs\Ya'll all need hugs."

P.S. A month or two ago someone noted that unless you were writing a chapter in Black Studies reader, using the term "the dozens" was expressly forbidden. They were right.

P.P.S. About this entry title..,



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