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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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On Big-Footing

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 28 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

Caught David Paterson on Meet The Press yesterday, and it was immediately clear why Barack Obama wants him out--not that it hasn't been for months. I don't think Paterson is a very good politician, at least not for the level he's playing on.

Still, the more I think on this, the more I think that it wasn't very smart to leak the story to the Times. No one likes to be embarrassed. Everyone likes to save face. I don't know why they needed to put Paterson on blast.

UPDATE: Video fixt. NBC changed their embedding. It's actually quite cool.



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