Lewis Hamilton a big sporting voice in Black Lives Matter movement

Prevented from doing his day job by coronavirus outbreak, Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton is standing out during pandemic through his passionate campaigning against racial injustice. Mercedes driver took to Instagram on Monday in support of demonstrators who toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader in English city of Bristol during one of many global protests in Black Lives Matter movement. All statues of racist men who made money from selling a human being should be torn down! Hamilton wrote on social-networking site. 

Hamilton a big sporting voice

Which one is next? In a later post to his 16.5 million followers, Briton issued a challenge to governments worldwide to make se changes and implement peaceful removal of se racist symbols.  Hamilton was just as vocal last week following death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck even after he pleaded for air while lying handcuffed on ground. Hamilton said he has felt so much anger sadness and disbelief in what my eyes have seen, adding that those of us who are black, brown or in between see it everyday and should t have to feel as though we were born guilty, don't belong, or fear for our lives based on colour of our skin. 

On Instagram, Hamilton criticized ors in Formula One for failing to speak up on issue of racism, saying y were staying silent in midst of injustice.  t a sign from anybody in my industry which of course is a white-dominated sport, six-time world champion added.  I'm one of only people of colour re yet I stand alone. I would have thought by w you would see why this happens and say something about it but you can't stand alongside us. Just kw I kw who you are and I see you 

Some F1 drivers responded to Hamilton, with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc saying he felt out of place and uncomfortable sharing my thoughts on social media and was completely wrong.  Hamilton is only black driver to have raced in F1 and has previously spoken out about adversity he has overcome to make it to top of a sport he perceives being for white and privileged. Formula One season has yet to start its 2020 season because of coronavirus, with sport shutting down week of opening race in Australia in March. season is w scheduled to start on July 5 in Austria. 

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