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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.

Ambushing The Birthers

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jul 28 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

I'm generally not a fan of these sorts of videos--you can never tell what they mean, because you don't have much context. What percentage of GOP congressmen actually are scared of the birthers? Is media just honing in on a few? You can't really tell.

That being said, watching a dude sprint away from the reporter was interesting. More interesting was the dude at the end who stood his ground, slammed Obama, and then said he was clearly born in Hawaii and clearly a citizen.

I'm tempted to say that this is the sort of issue that creates a lot of noise, but actually doesn't have much of a following. But measuring it against the contraction in GOP party ID, you can't really be sure.



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