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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.

The wild and wooly world of post-racial America

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 18 2008, 11:00 AM ET Comment

From rikyrah:

Coates,

Jesse Jackson, Jr. is a SNITCH.

LOL

he should stand up and be proud about it.

I don't know if I can function in this new post-racial America. Yesterday on the train to Baltimore I helped a white lady with her bags--and she seemed perfectly confident that I wouldn't make off with them. And now comes news that black men from the South Side are bragging about the speed at which they drop dime. Indeed, what's next? Toby Kieth covering "Rebel Without A Pause?" Jay-Z converting to HInduism? High-end chefs serving bean pie for desert? Actually that last one would be so awesome. The Muslim Sleeping Pill (hot bean pie and a scoop of vanilla ice cream) gone high end.




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