World champion Lewis Hamilton has criticized former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone’s statements about racism as “ignorant and uneducated”. “If someone who has been involved in sport for decades knows so little about the profound problems that black people have to deal with every day, how can we expect understanding from the people who work under them,” wrote the 35-year-old British on Instagram. Ecclestone said in a CNN interview that in many cases black people are more racist than white people.
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The 89-year-old Ecclestone is no longer part of Formula 1 and from another generation, but his comments would show what went wrong. “It now makes perfect sense to me why nothing has been said or done to make our sport more diverse or to counter the racist attacks I’ve been exposed to throughout my career,” said Hamilton.
In the interview, Ecclestone praised Hamilton’s use against racism, but denied discrimination against black people in Formula 1. Formula 1 emphasized that after his retirement in 2017, Ecclestone no longer played a role in the racing series, and he had not had his honorary title as emeritus chairman since January 2020.
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