Racism Less Than Dead

A churchman said to me recently: "I wish I could say that racism is dead in the Church. In fact it is very much alive!" OBSERVATION: It has been proposed that racism is heresy. I wouldn't go so far, but I would say that racism probably indicates that one hasn't cottoned on to the true gospel. What is racism? I might say something like this: not seeing the grace and power and beauty of God in a person of another culture (not merely their intrinsic worth) -- which raises the bar, I think, above the usual definitions.