Lewis Hamilton says being bullied and called the N-word at school was 'probably the most traumatizing and most difficult part of my life.'
is opening up on the racism and bullying he faced as a kid ... saying his classmates called him the N-word during"the most traumatizing and most difficult part of my life."
"I was already being bullied at the age of six," Hamilton said."I think at the time of that particular school, I was probably one of three kids of color and just bigger and stronger bullying kids were throwing me around a lot of the time." 38-year-old Hamilton -- who is mixed-race -- said the way his peers treated him made him question his identity and sense of belonging ... claiming people even threw bananas at him and used the N-word"just so relaxed.""That, for me, was difficult. When you then go into like history class and everything you learn in history, there are no pictures of people of color in the history that they were teaching us.
"I didn't want my dad to think I was not strong," he said."And so, I would, if I had tears, I would hold them back. If I had emotions, it would be in a quiet place."
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