A Macon, Georgia, football coach and trainer is under fire after posting several racist videos on social media.
The clips feature the man joking about getting someone to hunt and hang Black people in Atlanta, a city he implies has too many Black people in it.
Three videos of Mark Taylor, the owner of Speed Edge Sports, have been uploaded on social media and have gone viral.
In all of the clips, Taylor speaks casually about his disdain for African-Americans, despite many of the students he trains being people of color.
The University of Georgia alumnus appears in one video driving through downtown Atlanta on his way to his lodgings at the Omni Hotel, which adjoins CNN’s headquarters. While driving, he makes remarks about how the city has changed over the years.
“I ain’t seen a white person in sight. Homeless ones on the street,” he complained.
Continuing, “Every restaurant looking in here is Black. Every car beside them is Black. They can have Atlanta.”
He explains to someone named “Ro” that Atlanta used to be a “fun place,” but now, with such a heavily African-American liberal-leaning population, it’s a location he would rather not frequent.
Taylor then says, while driving down the street, “You and [unclear] need to come up here and go hunting. Ain’t nothing here. Ain’t nothing but Blacks. Atlanta done gone down.”
In a follow-up video, a car driven by a Black woman appears to cut him off in the street. Taylor gets so upset that he mentions it to his friend, Ro.
“Ro, look at this n##ger trying to pull out right in front of me right here,” he said, panning over to a young Black woman.
He rhetorically asks her from his car, “Do you see that tree right there?”
As he pans up to the tree on the side of the city street, “Ro will hang you from that tree.”
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