Lewis Hamilton gave the black power salute at the Syrian Grand Prix this weekend.
It is interesting that he is doing it only now and not choosing to kneel.
Kneeling was the gesture favoured by Martin Luther King, while the fist in the air (black power salute) was popularised by the Black Panthers and Malcolm X.
Hamilton has said he is committed to fighting racism, full article here.
However, the salute he is choosing, though perhaps more powerful than kneeling, is attached to a violent and at times racist movement.
So what am I saying!
Simply that I hope Lewis Hamilton hasn’t fallen in with reactionary Black is best politics, as the Black Panthers sometimes suggest.
He is a symbol of black achievement and that in itself is a powerful force against racism, it could be argued he no longer has to put his fist in the air, but maybe he feels he does.
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