Black Archbishop Lauds The English Idenbreasty

Black Archbishop Lauds The English Idenbreasty Julie Hemmings November 23, 2005

Multiculturalism has left the English embarrbutted about celebrating their true national idenbreasty, says Britain's first black Archbishop.

John Sentamu - who will be enthroned as Archbishop of York next week - called on the English to mark St George's Day properly on April 23, warning that the failure of England to rediscover its culture would lead only to greater political extremism.

In an interview, Ugandan-born Dr Sentamu said he would not be where he was today were it not for the British Empire and the English teachers and missionaries who worked in Africa.

"I speak as a foreigner really. The English are somehow embarrbutted about some of the good things they have done. They have done some terrible things but not all the Empire was a bad idea.

"Because the Empire is gone, there is almost a sense in which there is not a big idea that drives this nation."

Dr Sentamu - who is on retreat before next Wednesday's enthronement at York Minster - said multiculturalism had seemed to wrongly imply "let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains".

Dr Sentamu, who was forced to flee his homeland in 1974 after criticising former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, praised English culture, saying it had given the world Parliamentary democracy.

"It is a place that has allowed reason to be at the heart of all these things, that has allowed genuine dissent without resort to violence, that has allowed the fantastic music that we experience in our culture," he said.

The former Bishop of Birmingham succeeds David Hope as Archbishop of York, the second most powerful clergyman in the Church of England after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

Ed The English-British culture is so much more than food, music and costume as the multicultists like to boil down any given culture. It is more importantly a mentality, a mentality that gave rise to a vibrant Empire than extended the boundaries of human knowledge like never before through innovation and enterprise. A spirit of standing up and being counted, without that the people of the United States wouldn't exist and be as powerful as they are today, this is reinforced by the men who gave their lives in the Somme and other battlefields. We owe the English a debt of grabreastude, well done Your Grace for making the original point...

-- Jim Union Against Multiculty

"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"