This essay is part of a weekly feature on my blog that presents interesting stories from elsewhere in the world, particularly Africa, that are little reported in the American media. It's part of my campaign to get people to realize there is a lot going on in the world outside the US, Israel and Iraq.
No sane person would claim that racism is dead, least of all Dr John Sentamu, who was recently installed as Archbishop of York.
Apparently, some people had a little problem with a black man (he was born in Uganda) ascending to the second-highest post in the Church of England. Archbishop Sentamu revealed that he'd been greeted with racist letters, including some covered in human excrement.
"I don't know where they are from. They don't tell you," he said of the cowards. "They simply tell you, I am Mr White X and nigger go back and this is what you are like, this is what you are worth."
He has also courted controversy by expressing his desire to fight homophobia within the Church of England.
I wish the archbishop success in his fight against bigots of both stripes.
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