LEW FURY AT ‘IGNORANT’ F1 BOSS BERNIE
FORMULA One star Lewis Hamilton has labelled Bernie Ecclestone “ignorant and uneducated” for his comments about racism.
Billionaire Bernie claimed this week that “in lots of cases, black people are more racist than what white people are”.
But Lewis condemned the former F1 boss, 89, and said it was “sad and disappointing”.
Hamilton, 35, posted a series of Instagram messages, including images of apparent F1 fans “blacked up” at a track in 2007.
Alongside it he said: “I remember this like it was yesterday. The damage things like this do to people is unacceptable.”
The six-time world champ added: “Damn, I just don’t even know where to start with this one. So sad and disappointing to read these comments.
“Bernie is out of the sport and a different generation but this is exactly what is wrong – ignorant and uneducated comments which show us how far we as a society need to go before real equality can happen. It makes complete sense to me now that nothing was said or done to make our sport more diverse or address racial abuse.
“If someone who has run the sport for decades has such a lack of understanding of the deep-rooted issues we as black people deal with every day, how can we expect all the people who work under him to understand. It starts at the top.”
Mercedes driver Lewis returns to action at the Austria Grand Prix next weekend.
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