Black bishop attacks Church racism

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By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
(Filed: 29/08/2005)

The Church of England is infected with institutional racism and is still a place of "pain" for many black Anglicans, according to its first black archbishop.

Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop-designate of York, has used the foreword of a new book implicitly to criticise fellow Church leaders for failing to deal properly with discrimination in the organisation.

Though a long-term critic of the Church's "monochrome" white culture, his comments will now carry far more weight as he is soon to be enthroned as the second most senior cleric in the hierarchy.

They signal his intention to place racism at the heart of his agenda in office and will reopen soul-searching over one of the Church's most sensitive issues.

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