Lewis Hamilton, campeão da F1, lamenta silêncio de pilotos

Campeão falou sobre silêncio de sua categoria: ‘Sou um dos únicos negros lá e estou sozinho’

O multicampeão da Fórmula 1 e único piloto negro da categoria, Lewis Hamilton usou suas redes sociais para cobrar posicionamento sobre a morte de George Floyd e os movimentos antirracistas e lamentou a apatia dos seus colegas de profissão.

Por meio do seu perfil do Instagram o piloto foi direto ao cobrar em um texto publicado nos seus stories um posicionamento firme dos colegas:

“Eu vejo aqueles de vocês que estão calados, alguns de vocês são as maiores estrelas, e ainda assim ficam calados no meio da injustiça. Não há sinal de manifestação de ninguém na minha indústria que, é claro, é o esporte dominado por brancos. Sou um dos únicos negros lá e estou sozinho”

Se no mundo da Fórmula 1 Hamilton se sente sozinho no movimento, ele pde contar com outros astros do esporte, como a estrela do basquete Lebron James e o astro do futebol francês Kyliam Mbappé

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This past week has been so dark. I have failed to keep hold of my emotions. I have felt so much anger, sadness and disbelief in what my eyes have seen. I am completely overcome with rage at the sight of such blatant disregard for the lives of our people. The injustice that we are seeing our brothers and sisters face all over the world time and time again is disgusting, and MUST stop. So many people seem surprised, but to us unfortunately, it is not surprising. Those of us who are black, brown or in between, see it everyday and should not have to feel as though we were born guilty, don’t belong, or fear for our lives based on the colour of our skin. Will Smith said it best, racism is not getting worse, it’s being filmed. Only now that the world is so well equipped with cameras has this issue been able to come to light in such a big way. It is only when there are riots and screams for justice that the powers that be cave in and do something, but by then it is far too late and not enough has been done. It took hundreds of thousands of peoples complaints and buildings to burn before officials reacted and decided to arrest Derek Chauvin for murder, and that is sad. Unfortunately, America is not the only place where racism lives and we continue to fail as humans when we cannot stand up for what is right. Please do not sit in silence, no matter the colour of your skin. Black Lives Matter. #blackouttuesday

A post shared by Lewis Hamilton (@lewishamilton) on Jun 2, 2020 at 9:45am PDT

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STILL!!!!

A post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on May 27, 2020 at 9:43am PDT

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… #blackouttuesday

A post shared by Kylian Mbappé (@k.mbappe) on Jun 2, 2020 at 5:50am PDT