I appreciate your sensitivities about conservatives mimicking the left about racism, but it’s plain that the liberals are inserting his race into it for the purpose of making him seem alien. After all, they don’t state what’s wrong with his views and approach in any terms other than that they are African. “He rules like a tribal chief,” they say. Well, how is it that tribal chiefs rule? They want to conjure up stereotypes of primitives with bones in their noses and big, black cauldrons for boiling missionaries, and topless dancers gyrating madly to drum beats to a pagan god.
Perhaps even more insidiously, they want to appeal to the British sense of racial superiority, the sense that it is a perversion of the natural order for the colonial primitives to be taking seats of moral leadership; “No, here is an errant pupil of ours, who has only understood the broad strokes our civilizing of him, while his primate mind is too simple to grasp the subtleties of culture and polite society.”
I wondered, when I read the article, how a tribal chief rules and how Bishop Sentamu's critics would know.
What's really amusing is the vision of English Bishops and Archbishops, staid, self-congratulatory, suffused with decadence and enamored of decadent dogma, with bones in THEIR noses, surrounded by topless dancers gyrating madly to drum beats, and with big, black cauldrons for boiling heretics who do not accept the new religion Decadence! "Liberalism"! and its pagan god Big Brother!
It'll be hilarious when their errant pupil reverses their natural order and they realize that it is THEIR primate minds that are too simple to grasp the subtleties of truth.
Keep the brilliant writing flowing, Dangus! It brightens everything with the light of truth and amuses everyone with a comic irony that Jane Austen herself would envy!