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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.

Keep on having that party...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jan 15 2009, 10:00 AM ET Comment

Via Andrew, Rod Dreher proves himself perceptive as ever:

In his latest video dispatch from the war zone in southern Israel, Joe the Plumber accuses an Israeli journalist of not being pro-Israeli. If I were a liberal now, I'd be paying cash money to keep this asinine experiment keepin' on.
Hell yeah. And it ain't just him. It's the "writer" who thinks the way to advance the cause is to attack Michelle Obama for wearing fake pearls, or the guy who would be RNC chair who thinks its smart to send of Barack the Magic Negro CDs, or the Bush era "voitng rights" official who likes to crack racist jokes about white people, or the dude who would be RNC chair who thinks gays can restrain their urges to, uhm, be who they are. Roflerz. As a good little liberal, let me do my part and urge these guys on. So go ahead, Joe the Plumber, Ann Coulter, and Magic Negro guy. By all means, Do You. And whatever you do, please, keep on having that party.


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