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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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Atheists As Religious Kooks

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 27 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

You listen to this, and could so easily see this ending in a pogrom. This idea that only a belief in Allah\Christ could convince someone to fly a plane into a building just strikes me as incredibly naive.



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