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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.
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Anti-Boomerism

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jan 16 2009, 1:08 PM ET Comment

I keep seeing, in comments, people either blaming things on the boomers, or boomers, themselves, taking issue with that. I've done my share of overgeneralizing. My question is, in the age of Obama, does this rankle you guys? Are boomers pissed that we seem to be seeing them all through rather extreme lense of McCain/Ayers/Clinton/Bush?

UPDATE: Wow. Hop on a plane to LA, check back in, and what do we have. Prolly the most venomous thread in this blog's undistinguished history. I always sensed this as an undercurrent in the comments. Didn't realize it ran this deep. Nevertheless. I wanted to hear from Boomers, if anymore are out there...


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