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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.

That town needs a better class of bigot

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jan 27 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

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This fool--with those lips--is one of three who decided to go out and beat up some black people when Obama won. Incredible. That is some only in New York shit. Where I come from, looking like that is likely to put you on the other side of the baseball bat. But it gets even weirder:

Armed with a police-style baton and a metal pipe, they attacked a black teenager, pushed another black man, harassed a Hispanic man and, in a finishing flourish, ran over a white man who they thought was black, leaving him in a coma, the authorities said.
Is there anything more to say? Oh yeah. Dumbass.

UPDATE: Hyperlink fixt.


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