LEWIS HAMILTON has called on governments across the world to rip down “all statues of racist men” after Edward Colston’s monument was toppled in Bristol. F1 world champion Hamilto…
F1 world champ Hamilton has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movementand, while he was known for his philanthropy, he amassed much of his wealth through the slave trade.
"All statues of racist men who made money from selling a human being should be torn down! Which one is next? The Brit, 35, has since followed up his comments with another longer post in which he suggested Colston's statue should be replaced with a memorial to the slaves he trafficked. "There's talk of it going into a museum. That man's statue should stay in the river just like the 20 thousand African souls who died on the journey here and thrown into the sea with no burial or memorial.
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