I’m getting tired not of Alonso hype but the way people are praising him and degrading other top F1 drivers who aren’t driving in other series. The only reason he’s doing this is because he can’t win in F1. Do you really think that he would be doing all this if he was fighting for a championship in F1?

Bah..

Hamilton, on the other hand, can relate to the athletes being talked down upon by the U.S. president. He “identif[ies] with a lot of those individuals,”

Good on him. Not a Hamilton fan but this would definitely make me change my mind. For all you thinking he’s protesting the anthem or the flag.... you’re clearly missing the point.

Communicate his empathy as a prominent black athlete for something other black athletes are protesting about the way African-Americans are treated in this country and send a symbolic message of support for universal civil rights.

Reposted.

Well, as far as I know, the Chinese, Bahraini, Azerbaijiani, Singaporean and Malaysian police have yet to gun down Black visitors from America without legal retribution. As far as I know....

Because American citizens are the only people police have mistreated because they were black?

The only thing I can say is that you don’t have to have cancer to walk against it. You don’t have to be black to stand up (or kneel down for) the BLM movement. Heck, if you’re on the other side of the fence, you don’t need to be a cop to stand up for the Blue Lives Matter movement. You don’t have to be American to…

How very un-American of him to examine evidence and rationally induce a conclusion. Imagine the terrifying consequences if such behavior became commonplace in our society...

Police violence and nationalism are international issues. End of convo

Here’s a few:

Every time i see this I cannot comprehend how in 2017 people can be this .... just... I don’t even have the words.

Just to see you leave, I hope he does.

This is a very small sample of what Lewis has to deal with:

He is the first/only Black F1 driver and arguably one of the best drivers ever. Can you imagine the crap he puts up with?

Good. Im glad hes doing it and knowing why hes doing it. Some that have been doing dont really understand why they are but are just following along. They dont understand it just as much as the people against them kneeling dont fully understand why they are doing it. But as one of literally a handful of Black race car…

Vettel was WAY worse last year man. Stop it.

I find it funny that people are calling Hamilton a whiner when he successfully baited a multi-time World champion into damaging their own car and incurring a race losing penalty.