Video footage of a Georgia athletics coach known for helping students get recruited with top-level colleges has gone viral with the coach filmed using extremely racist and vile language—and most of it is geared toward people who look like many of the students he trains.
On social media, Mark Taylor, who is white and leads Speed Edge Sports in Macon, claims to have been the “[Georgia High School Association] Coach of The Year for track 6 years in a row” and a former University of Georgia defensive end who has gotten more than “60 athletes at D1 schools and 16 in the NFL.” Many of Taylor’s social media posts feature him training Black student-athletes, some of whom have gone on to play professional sports.
Clips of the trainer were shared on Facebook on April 10 by Lauren Angelica Law, a self-proclaimed civil rights activist. It is unclear how Law obtained the videos or when they were filmed.
