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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (born 1975, Baltimore, Maryland) is a senior editor for The Atlantic and blogs on its website. (He pronounces his name /ˌtɑːnəˈhɑːsi ˈkoʊts/ tah-nə-hah-see kohts.) Coates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, O, and other publications. In 2008 he published a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood.
Coates was raised in a working class family in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Paul Coates, was a Vietnam veteran and former Black Panther. His mother was the breadwinner in the family and his father was a stay-at-home dad during Ta-Nehisi's childhood. In high school, he attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Coates attended Howard University but dropped out to become a journalist. He currently resides in Harlem with his wife and son.
The Beautiful Struggle is Coates's first and only published...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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No One Left To Lie To - The truth hurts: ... More: ... More: - — The truth hurts: … More: … More: … More: … More: … All parties agree that Ron Paul is not, personally, racist and that he didn't write the passages. This is comforting. I am not an anti-Semite. But give me a check to tell Harlem the Jews invented AIDS, and I'll do it. |
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The Irony Of American History - — I'd like to think that the Confederate Flag in the back was photo-shopped. At any rate, what's amazing is the frame here—It's not the firing on federal property that inaugurated the War, it's Bull Run, or some such. It's as if I punch you in the face … |
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The Messenger - They too needed emancipation. --Ulysses S. Grant - — They too needed emancipation. —Ulysses S. Grant — As I often do on this blog, I'd like journey back to the Crack era—the late 80's and early 90's —when the general sense was that the black youth of America had lost their minds. All across our cities, young black men were bleeding in the streets. |
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41 days ago |
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The Roots Of Glenn Beck - — Mark Lilla doesn't really like Corey Robin's new book on conservatism: … Better though, is his own perspective on the roots of conservatism and its current flight into the apocalyptic and reactionary: … It's interesting that Lilla raises Buckley here. |
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43 days ago |
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Old News Cont. - — Correction: After some prodding from Julian Sanchez, I re-read the Dave's piece. Calling it a defense is wrong. It isn't. It's an explanation. My apologies. I leave the text intact so that nothing is hidden. — Yesteday Ron Paul claimed on CNN that he'd never read … |
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45 days ago |
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Ron Paul's Shaggy Defense - — The Times notes that Ron Paul's racism newsletters are, again, becoming an issue. The standard defense has generally been Paul didn't write the newsletters. I think an honest reckoning with that defense would have someone question the faculties of an adult … |
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46 days ago |
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Hitchens And The War - — Glenn Greenwald: … I don't know if I qualify as mainstream media—frankly, I hope so, and consider myself as such. To that extent, I surely as I agree appropriateness of Hitchens impious attack on the dead Jerry Falwell, I agree with the appropriateness … |
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67 days ago |
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The Race-IQ 'Blackout' - Andrew asserts that "pc egalitarianism" ... - — Andrew asserts that “pc egalitarianism” is strangling research into IQ. To buttress this observation he points to a piece in Alternet that basically asserts the same. The piece contains no numbers to back up the claim, and quotes only one scientist to evidence this scourge of manners. |
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