US facing issues with racism, xenophobia and nativism, says Biden

President Joe Biden has said that the "ugly poisons" of "systemic racism and white supremacy" had long plagued the United States, and vowed to change the laws that enabled continued discrimination'. Racism, xenophobia, nativism, and other forms of intolerance are not problems unique to the United States. They are global problems. They are human problems that we all need to recognize, name, and dismantle, said  the white house ststement issued on Sunday night, marks the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, created in the 1970s to mark a 1960 massacre in South Africa."Hate can have no safe harbor in America. It should have no safe harbor anywhere in the world. We must join together to make it stop," Biden said in the statement.

US will lead the conversation on these painful issues—at home, in international institutions, and around the world, including the "horrific" mistreatment of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and the Uighurs in China."One of the core values and beliefs that should bring us together as Americans is standing against hate and racism, even as we acknowledge that systemic racism and white supremacy are ugly poisons that have long plagued the United States," he said. "We must change the laws that enable discrimination in our country, and we must change our hearts."