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Hamilton wants to remove statues: ''Remove these racist symbols''
Lewis Hamilton has been heard clearly on social media in recent weeks. The British Formula 1 driver was already clearly in action for George Floyd, but now also speaks out on Instagram about images of slave-drivers. During a demonstration in Bristol, England, activists pulled Edward Colston's statue from its pedestal and threw it into the water. Colston was a businessman and politician in the seventeenth century, who made a lot of money in his time from the slave trade. The statue of him was taken down in protest by the #blacklivesmatter demonstrators. Read more Montoya: ''Williams is out of desperation but people keep hiring'' Hamilton in action "Our country honored a man who sold...
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