Why is Hamilton called the first black champion when he is half white?

Shouldn't he be called the first brown champion or the first golden coloured champion.





|||When your mixed like that and your skin is brown people tend to just classify you as black. It also depends on how you classify yourself. Maybe he calls himself black. The same as them saying Obama will be the first black president (he is also mixed). My exhusband was mixed and at school they had him listed as white LMFAO, but he always considered himself as black. To each his own.|||because he is half black aswell duh|||There's no room for racism here. Go back under your stone.|||I hate this, my son is mixed race but if he were to be arrested by the police he would be described as "black" whats with that!!!! I understand that there are different types of mixed races but surely he's not black or white!|||I wish all this black/white stuff would stop, it's not relevant|||Because most of us aren't racist twats.|||What would you want to call him if he were in court and not on the podium?? Or if you saw him in the store? Or on a street corner one night?





He is black because people identified him as black from LOOKING...and when he does something you admire you want to claim part ownership in his genetic stock??


Get a grip!! .........








on something other than your own penis I mean!!!


ROFLMFAO!!|||I suppose for sports dominated by hillbillies, some would question that. If you have a black parent, you can consider yourself black.|||at least he's a Brit... sadly not English... unlike Damon...





and dont be disingeuous, the guy won, after teh FIA / ferrari gestapo ROBBED him of points, and places...





fork the colour of his skin, he won.. masser lost and cried on TV... just like Mikka hakkinen did... |||


I don't see why people are calling this a racist question.





Steve has a point, whose to say that Lewis doesn't want to called black, he's no more black than white.


So ok, i'm pretty sure he does but the point is that many mixed race people are automatically called black rather than white, even where they are quite pale.





Many say being 'black' isn't just about the colour of your skin which confuses things even more, and if that's right then does that gives us all the choice of what colour we are labelled?





I don't think there is a right answer to this, but to label Steve as a racist just for asking this question is clearly wrong.


|||Fair question and its something that pisses me off.





'Formula One's First Mixed Race Champion' doesn't have the commerical je ne sais quoi that 'Formula Ones First Black Champion' has.


Its easier to say 'black' champion than 'mixed race' champion as it insinuates there has been a black champion previously by being so specific. Goddamn Political correctness umbrellas!!





Lewis is 'black' purely for the comfort of marketing. |||Many years ago Groucho Marx took his and his non-Jewish wife's small son to a snotty Country Club swimming pool. Groucho was rudely informed that it was for non-Jews only. ''Well, can he go in up to his waist then?' asked the good man.


Btw, my own darling grandson is 'black' - with blond hair and blue eyes! :)|||In Britain, at least, the term mixed race is accepted to describe those with black and white heritage so he should really be Formula One's first mixed race driver, not first Black driver. At a stretch maybe you could say first driver of Black heritage but it's not the colour of his skin that's important, more his skill in a car. I'm not a huge fan of his to be honest but he does deserve the title after being up at the top for two years running.|||There are only 2 colours and hes not WHITE.|||Lewis Hamilton is actually mixed race of noble Scottish ancestry, the name Hamilton comes from the highlands of that Noble Scottish family and if Lewis does some family tree back tracking he will be pleasantly surprised to find that somewhere way way back is a white great grand parent, the one whom all those years( about 150 to be exact) ago decided to go to the Caribbean amd extend the Hamilton family dowm there.





That is how the Hamiltons have come to be known throughout the Caribbean islands of St Vincent, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere, there are also mixed race Hamilton descendants on the West Coast of Africa and the old Klondike area of South Africa alive and kicking today.





All this talk of his Paternal Grandparent/s being Black is a load of old whooey.It simply is not true. There is one p谩ternal white grand-Pa or Ma there as well.|||Because he isn't bloody white.|||I thought he was the youngest world champion. I could honestly care less about the rest.|||Very Good Question


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|||In a perfect world he would just be known as the youngest world champion, but hey, his skin is dark therefore people can't see past that fact. |||well i dont know about that, his fathers present wife is white, and she is louis,s step mother, not his birth mother.|||vals right :)|||Personally I think that use genetics to describe people's race stupid, race matters because people of different races have different APPEARANCES, actually it's the appearance that matters.





Someone said that Hamilton was the first mixed-race formula one drives, what about the Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya?|||If he were pure black certainly he woundn麓t have won the chapionship. It was that white portion of his genetics that made him a regular pilot|||because if you look at him his skin colour is much more darker than most other drivers in the field.


to put it simply its just puttin a label on him and in the sporting world there really isn't any need for personal labels.|||Is he black or white..............





How long is a piece of string....





Is Obama an american or a Kenyan..........





It depends - is you cup 1/2 full or 1/2 empty you can go on all day!!!|||he is also half black. kinda obviuos|||He is mixed black...and there has never been a mixed BLACK racing driver in Formula One, so to exagerate this they say the Black world champion.


If Lewis does not mind this, im sure you shouldn't.