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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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Tiger Woods Is Losing Sponsors

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec 14 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

As everyone predicted. I don't have much understanding of this. I don't really get how endorsements and the human brain work. I can't really recall ever buying something because someone famous, who I didn't know, told me I should. Maybe as a kid.

Anyway, I don't doubt the logic. But the whole business befuddles me.


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