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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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Venting

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Feb 22 2010, 2:00 PM ET Comment

It really sucks when you spend the morning writing a blog-post, and you can't convince yourself that you're right. Hours of writing and thinking, and you don't so much realize you're wrong, as you're just not convinced you're right. All of that work for naught.

People who talk shit about bloggers need to try it. It's fucking hard.

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