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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.

Chloe Sevigny Calls This Season Of Big Love "Awful"

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mar 29 2010, 4:00 PM ET Comment

And then claims she was taken out of context. Reporters need to start uploading audio. I'm so sick of hearing this. I'm sure it's true sometimes. But so often it's a cop-out.

UPDATE: Via comments the AV Club responds, noting that Sevigny and HBO accused them of taking the quote of context. The AV Club has posted the audio, so you can judge for yourself. Good on them. Reporters need to do this to protect themselves from bullshiters who lob bombs and then use writers as human shields. 


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