Bernie's been gone for a while now but he still manages to put his foot in it. 9WWOS
Formula One has distanced itself from comments by the sport's former CEO Bernie Ecclestone that Black people were often more racist than white people.
Hamilton criticised his sport for its silence over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis last month after a white U.S. police officer knelt on his neck. The 89-year-old said that changing attitudes towards race won't come "easily," scorning the dismantling of statues of slave trade figures -- a move Hamilton backed when the statue of Edward Colston was torn down in the English city of Bristol."I think they need to start being taught at school," said Ecclestone."So they grow up not having to think about these things. I think it's completely stupid taking all these statues down. They should've left them there.
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