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Any Americans who believe that this countryâs race problem stops at the waterâs edge should disabuse themselves of the notion.
Our race problem is also an international problem in that dictators and authoritarian regimes use it as a way to point out American hypocrisy on human rights, as a means of deflecting from their horrible treatment of their own people and as a way to buck American chastisement.
Until America sufficiently deals with its own race problem, it will remain somewhat handicapped on the world stage.
On Wednesday, at a news conference after his meeting with President Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin brushed aside criticism of how his government was treating a pro-democracy group in his country by comparing that group to Black Lives Matter:
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Let s just revel in some good old-fashioned competence for a few moments. Here s President Joe Biden announcing that he and his team have now secured the purchase of enough vaccines to vaccinate the entire country. Two weeks ago I directed Jeff Zients, who s here with me, my COVID-19 Response Coordinator, to work with the Department of Health and Human Services to purchase more vaccines. Just this afternoon, we signed the final contracts for 100 million more Moderna and 100 million more Pfizer vaccines, Pres. Biden said. We were also able to move up the delivery dates with an additional 200 million vaccines to the end of July, faster than we expected.