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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.

Racism Against White People

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jun 8 2009, 10:00 AM ET Comment

It's the only real racism. Here's Bay Buchanan on the ordeal that suffered by bigots in her employ:

Last month the left wing blog, One People's Project, posted a story about one Marcus Epstein.  Within this story it was reported that two years ago next month Marcus assaulted a black woman in Georgetown calling her the "n" word. 

What happened next was a modern day lynching by a faceless, angry, ignorant mob who reveled in the collective assault on their victim.  They had wounded an adversary and drawn blood -- without pausing to ask how so talented a young man could have found himself in such a mess. 
Right. A lynching. It's like white people can't get a fair shot in this society anymore. HT to TPM.


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