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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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Dyson Tackles Obama

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jun 3 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

I don't have much to say about this, but I think you guys will be interested. I think his critique on AIG is fine, but I don't get the citation of Ebony, or the seeming angst at being invited to the White House, or the idea that Obama can't explicitly embrace black people. I'm not sure what people want from him. He's the president. And mostly, I don't get this notion that Obama is scared to say Martin Luther King's name. It's all just mind-boggling.



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