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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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By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 26 2009, 11:00 AM ET Comment

About that dude toting the AR-15 to the Obama outside the Obama town-hall. He belongs to a church that claims the country is "run by faggots." Oh, the pastor also prays for the President to die and go to hell.

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