Minority Death Match: Jews, Blacks, & the “Post-Racial” Presidency

By Naomi Klein - August 29, 2009

[The previous version of this article has been revised on the advice of counsel]

When I arrived at the grand offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the Palais Wilson, looking out at a drizzly Lake Geneva, Navanethem Pillay was hunched over the shoulder of her deputy, Kyung-wha Kang, dictating a press release. "I am shocked and deeply disappointed," I heard her say, pointing at the screen while Kang typed. It was 3:00 p.m., and Pillay was having a very bad day.

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