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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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By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 8 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

Great quote from Josh Marshall:

Barack Obama definitely the first black man to get attacked by the right for telling kids to study hard and stay in school.
As beautiful as this sounds, regrettably, this isn't quite true. The extreme right has been attacking black men, and women, for over a century for saying exactly that--albeit in much more violent terms.


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