The Color of Success.(Column)
AutoWeek, July, 2007
Byline: Dutch Mandel America's stick-and-ball sports public was recently introduced to Briton Lewis Hamilton courtesy of ESPN. Car guys have known him, but I was still interested to see how it played out on TV. Hamilton shared the screen with golfer Tiger Woods, and I wondered whether they were coupled because each is phenomenal at what he does or because of skin color.
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The former I understand completely, and applaud; the latter does little more than promote racial stereotypes. That I do not abide. In Hamilton, I see a racer first, a superstar rising above a field of egos who ...
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