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Minority death match:
Jews, blacks, and the “post-racial” presidency
By Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein’s last article for Harper’s Magazine, “Disaster Capitalism,” appeared in the October 2007 issue.
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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