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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.

Political Cowardice

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 20 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

Somehow I missed this, but here's Rick Perry covering his ass in the Willingham case:

"Willingham was a monster," he said. "Here's a guy who murdered his three children, who tried to beat his wife into an abortion so he wouldn't have those kids. Person after person has stood up and testified to the facts in this case."
Perry is disgusting. And we're disgusting for electing people like him to consider such weighty matters. Read about Willingham, and the likely execution of an innocent man, here.



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