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Hamilton: I don’t have any plans to ‘take a knee'

Formula 1 title favourite Lewis Hamilton said he sympathised with athletes protesting racism in the United States, but he had no plans to kneel during the national anthem before Sunday’s United States Grand Prix. The Briton, whose paternal grandparents came from the Caribbean island of Grenada and whose mother is white, told reporters that winning the race was his priority. “I don’t really have a position and I don’t have any plans,” said the Mercedes driver, who can secure his fourth world title at the weekend if results go his way, when asked whether he might ‘take a knee’. “I know a lot of people in America so I get to speak a lot of black and white people who live here....
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