Postbag of hate for a black archbishop
The Church of England’s new No 2 has endured racial abuse, he tells Christopher Morgan and Jasper Gerard

THE new Archbishop of York, Ugandan-born John Sentamu, has been receiving racist hate mail since his appointment. He reveals today that since he was chosen as the Church of England’s second in command in June he has received letters daubed with swastikas and containing excrement.

“I have been victim of all sorts of things,” he said in an interview at Lambeth Palace. “I have had a lot of terrible racist hate mail even since my appointment as archbishop.” Story