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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.

You're A Customer

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feb 26 2010, 1:11 PM ET Comment

Lots of complaints about the comments. Just got this note from our awesome tech people:

Not sure if you want to reply but your users are saying that showing just 40 posts before they have to load more is a pain.  We're updating it to 80 posts.
Again, I'm a fan of the redesign, but critique is not a bad thing. I didn't just put it there for people to vent. (And I see very little, if any, of that in the thread.) I want to hear what you guys have to say. And that goes for the whole team.  It won't be perfect. But we're going to do our best. So keep talking and keep being constructive.

 And to make this qualify as a culture entry, a little Isley.



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