And I thought, ‘I can’t stay quiet’… And so when I did speak out, that was me letting the Black community know, ‘I hear you and I stand with you.’” And it was so powerful and sad and also releasing. And this stuff came up that I’d suppressed over all these years. As Hamilton told the Guardian: “I was in tears. But the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, and the global anti-racism movement it sparked, awakened his sense of social justice. Until May last year he was known beyond racing mainly as someone who promoted his own fashion wear and who hung around with other celebrities. The change in Hamilton has been profound. But almost more important than all of that is the fact that, in the past 18 months, he has grown into someone who is not just a fantastically successful racing driver, but who has transcended sport and become a major global cultural figure.
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