{"id":59907,"date":"2020-07-06T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59907"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:23:53","slug":"lewis-hamilton-attacks-silence-from-f1-paddock-over-george-floyd-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59907","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton attacks silence from F1 paddock over George Floyd killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Lewis Hamilton attacks silence from F1 paddock over George Floyd killing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2020-05-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/giles_richards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Giles Richards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/may\/31\/lewis-hamilton-condemns-silence-from-f1-paddock-over-george-floyd-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/92da98411970a3513bef2c7c2ffb79eefd2fd004\/0_102_3500_2099\/master\/3500.jpg?width=605&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=91e5f4a762dd86fc51f02671312bcb7c\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has accused \u2018some of the biggest stars\u2019 in his sport of \u2018staying silent in the midst of injustice\u2019 after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police<\/a>. <em>Photograph: David Davies\/PA<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Hamilton: \u2018I see those of you who are staying silent\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Driver condemns response from \u2018white-dominated sport\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has spoken out about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killing of George Floyd<\/a> and offered a damning condemnation of the silence from others in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formula_One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formula One<\/a>, including his fellow drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see those of you who are staying silent, some of you the biggest of stars yet you stay silent in the midst of injustice,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. \u201cNot a sign from anybody in my industry which of course is a white-dominated sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m one of the only people of colour there yet I stand alone. I would have thought by now you would see why this happens and say something about it but you can\u2019t stand alongside us. Just know I know who you are, and I see you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is the only black driver in Formula One and has been outspoken on the sport\u2019s need for greater diversity in the past. \u201cThere\u2019s barely any diversity in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formula_One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">F1<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/mar\/22\/lewis-hamilton-nothing-has-changed-on-diversity-in-formula-one-f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hamilton said in 2018<\/a>. \u201cStill nothing\u2019s changed in 11 years I\u2019ve been here.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/may\/31\/lewis-hamilton-condemns-silence-from-f1-paddock-over-george-floyd-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has spoken out about the killing of George Floyd and offered a damning condemnation of the silence from others in Formula One, including his fellow drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,10],"tags":[30870,30982,30981,30980,30979,18757,7222,2103],"class_list":["post-59907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-uk","tag-auto-racing","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-george-floyd","tag-giles-richards","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59909,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59907\/revisions\/59909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}