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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.

If ever we needed an open thread...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jan 20 2009, 10:42 AM ET Comment

It's today. Consider this your open inaugural thread. I'll be quasi-live-blogging.

12:17 I think I've heard too many Obama speeches. I'm unmoved. It's not his fault.He sounds awesome as ever. But I've seen this too many times, I think.

12:05 Oh man. Let's go.

11:35 Dick Cheney rolls through. Que the Darth Vader theme music.

11:31 So what do we think of the dress?

11:16 Clinton looked pissed? Were they just beefing? And whats up with H.W. and Barbara's purple scarves?

11:00 Watching ABC. I don't know how these guys keep talking.

10:57 Kenyatta has announced that she will buy--and fly--an American flag today.

10:54 And now the Obama car. Man look a that motorcade. Pennsy Ave. never looked so good.

10:47 Cheney in a wheel-chair. Not as gratifying as I thought it would be.


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