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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.

I Keep Trash Bags On Me...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jan 29 2010, 5:35 PM ET Comment

Headline of the day--"Obama goes to GOP Lion's Den--And Mauls The Lions." Basically. That was an athletic display--like watching Hopkins dominate Trinidad back in the day. Or Jordan drop 63 on the Celtics. (Let's not extend that metaphor too far, though. We know how that ends.) He's an immense, immense fucking talent. Now he needs to use that talent to deliver what he promised.

What follows after the jump will go over some people's heads, but it's all I could think about while listening---"I put the boy in a box, like David Blaine\And let the audience watch. It ain't a thing..." Heh, this sincere. This some sincere shit right here...


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