Seven-time world champion and pilot Mercedes in Formula 1, the British star Lewis Hamilton He is one of the people honored by the Basque in a series of anti-racism t-shirts that the Brazilian club will wear at the start of the season 2024 of the Carioca Soccer Championship.
The action was highlighted this Sunday in an “away” match against Sampaio Corrêain the second round of the state tournament, in Elcyr Resende Stadiumin Saquaremacoastal city of Rio de Janeiro.
The match ended in a 3-3 draw. In addition to Hamiltonnames like Nelson Mandelaformer president of South Africa and icon of the country’s fight against el apartheidy Milton Santosgeographer considered one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals of the last century.
The initiative marks the centenary of the Historical Response, which took place on April 7, 1924, when the Basque He reacted to pressure from the Rio soccer federation in 1924 to exclude African-American players and players of humble origins from the team. The letter in which the club refuses to replace the players is treated like a trophy by the fans. The shirts from the match with Sampaio Corrêa will be auctioned by Play for a Cause and the proceeds will be donated to the Racial Observatory in Football, a partner of the action.
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Lewis Hamilton honored in Vasco’s anti-racist action. Photo: Matheus Lima
Hamilton, for his part, has made a name for himself in the fight against racism in motorsport, where there is little representation – Lewis, for example, is the first African-American to compete in a GP. F1 in history, after Willy Theodore Ribbs Jr. tried in the highest category of motorsport in 1986.
Hamilton also gained notoriety beyond the world’s motorsports elite amid the shock of the death of George Floyd in 2020, following the campaign Black Lives Matterwhen he knelt in favor of awareness in several GPs.
List of honored personalities (text released by Vasco):
Luis Gama
Luiz Gama was a Brazilian lawyer, abolitionist, speaker, journalist and writer, Patron of the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil.
Abdias do Nascimento
Abdias do Nascimento was a Brazilian actor, poet, writer, playwright, artist, university professor, politician and activist for the civil and human rights of black people.
Zumbi dos Palmares
Zumbi, also known as Zumbi dos Palmares, was a Brazilian quilombola leader, the last of the leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, the largest of the quilombos of the colonial period. Zumbi was born in the then Captaincy of Pernambuco, in a region that today belongs to the municipality of União dos Palmares, in the state of Alagoas.
Conceição Evaristo
Maria da Conceição Evaristo de Brito is an Afro-Brazilian linguist and writer. Already retired, she developed a prolific career as a researcher and university professor. She is one of the most influential writers of the postmodernist movement in Brazil, and she has written in the genres of poetry, novel, short story and essay.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley, better known as Rosa Parks, was an American African-American activist and symbol of the black civil rights movement in the United States.
Milton Santos
Milton Almeida dos Santos was a Brazilian geographer, writer, scientist, journalist, lawyer and university professor. Considered one of the most renowned Brazilian intellectuals of the 20th century, he was one of the great names of the renewal of geography in Brazil that took place in the 1970s.
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland Owens, known as Jesse Owens, was an American athlete and civic leader. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Nazi Germany, and won four gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters, long jump, and the 4×100 meter relay.
Lewis Hamilton
Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver. Seven-time Formula 1 world champion, in 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, Hamilton is one of the best drivers of all time and one of the most successful athletes in history, always committed to anti-racist fight.
Martin L. King
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist pastor and political activist who became the most prominent figure and leader of the civil rights movement in the United States from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Sueli Carneiro
Aparecida Sueli Carneiro is a philosopher, writer and anti-racist activist in the Brazilian black social movement. Sueli Carneiro is the founder and current director of Geledés – Instituto da Mulher Negra and is considered one of the main authors of black feminism in Brazil.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a lawyer, rebel leader and president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, considered the most important leader of sub-Saharan Africa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and father of the modern South African nation, where he is often called Madiba or Tata.