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			<title><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates: The myth of meritocracy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-15 04:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Let me tell you about the worst thing I ever did to my son. When he was 4, I took him to a small basement apartment in a Manhattanbrownstone. I then paid a man to give my son an intelligence test.

The test was an attempt to deliver my son from the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A country song, assumptions -- and a racial outcry]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-12 10:38:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Southern white men don't usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution.

So after country music star Brad Paisley released his new song "Accidental Racist" this...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How does the war against al-Qaeda end?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-06 14:30:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few days after NBC News uncovered the Obama administration's legal justifications for killing American citizens, I was sitting in Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

The infamous "white paper" lays out in tortured English the lengths to which...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Meet the commenters: 'Edge of the 14th Ward']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-30 04:33:38</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few days after NBC News uncovered the Obama administration's legal justifications for killing American citizens, I was sitting in Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

The infamous "white paper" lays out in tortured English the lengths to which...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates: Guy meets 'Girls']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-18 10:30:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, "Girls," HBO's much-talked-about comedy, debuted its second season. I should qualify that "much-talked-about" description, since "Girls" is really only a major discussion point among young liberal urbanites around the country. It's in matters...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hidden side of Obama's race gap]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In his 2008 "A More Perfect Union" speech, presidential candidate Barack Obama declared, "Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now." Then he tried his best to ignore it.

At least in public, that is. It says a lot...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates: Republican problems are about more than just packaging]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-21 12:30:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There was nothing particularly noteworthy in the size of Barack Obama's defeat of Mitt Romney. The election was, as smart people predicted, generally tight, with Obama winning by a decisive, if unspectacular, margin. Immediately in the wake of that win...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates: Competing traditions toward human and civil rights]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-09-07 21:55:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the final evening of the Democratic National Convention, the blogger Andrew Sullivan posted a picture of Congressman Barney Frank kissing his spouse. Frank is openly gay and what is striking about the picture is a total absence of reticence, and the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New school]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-03 21:55:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a commenter on my blog at The Atlantic tried to describe the peculiar conundrum he'd found himself in as he tried to enroll his daughter in school. He was African-American and upwardly mobile. But he was very interested in maintaining...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates: A ranger's inspiration]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-06-29 21:45:11</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My dad always worked. He worked his day. He worked at his small publishing business when he got home. He worked on weekends and birthdays. He worked through the Lord's Season, reveling blasphemous through holidays. When I think of him, work is the first...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Does 'Girls' owe us racial diversity?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-05-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["There are worlds and there are worlds"

-- Cornelius Eady

There's a lot of talk around the Web about Lena Dunham's new HBO show, "Girls," and its lack of diversity. A significant part of the problem is the ongoing fight to have black America represented...]]></description>
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