A FOOTBALL coach has sparked outrage after clips of him allegedly spewing racist slurs while driving through a city went viral.
Personal trainer Mark Taylor yelled at a Black woman in Atlanta that someone would hang her from a tree, local media reports.
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"Ain't seen a white person in sight. Homeless ones on the street," a man is heard saying in the videos posted on Facebook.
CBS affiliate WMAZ and other local outlets report that the videos show Mark Taylor, and the clips have led to an outcry from parents of kids who he's coached and Central Georgia NAACP leaders.
"Every restaurant, looking here, is Black. Every car beside me is Black. They can have Atlanta," the man says in the video.
Taylor, a Macon resident who runs Speed Edge Sports, is known for helping kids aged eight and up get into top-level sports programs, according to WMAZ.
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He claims on his website to have trained over 60 athletes at D1 schools and 16 in the NFL. Videos on his site show him working with many young Black athletes.
The page claims that Taylor is a former Georgia Bulldog football player who has connections with SEC coaches like Kirby Smart and Nick Saban.
On April 10, a clip of the racist rant was shared by Lauren Angelica Law, a self-proclaimed civil rights activist who lives in Atlanta.
In the video, the man points his camera to a Black woman and says a derogatory term toward her and that she could "hang from a tree."
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Another clip appears to show him in a hotel room miming a conversation where he asks for room service.
"I need y'all n****** to bring me some chicken wings, two hoes. A redbone and a white girl," he said, using a slang term for a Black person of mixed race.
The videos have started a movement among parents who say it's unsafe for Taylor to be around children.
"He shouldn't be around kids," mom Karen Buckman told WMAZ.
"He shouldn't have a privilege of being around a coach to any athlete. Our parents need to know what they're walking into."
Buckman said that her son trained with Taylor for three years.
"You don't have to be a parent of a Black child or any person of color to be horrified or think this is horrendous," Buckman said.
Taylor was a teacher in Houston County until 2007, the Houston County Board of Education confirmed.
He pleaded guilty to a felony charge of influencing a witness, local news outlets report.
"When he had a hard time and went to prison, and he came back to our community to coach. We supported him," Buckman said.
"For him to bite the hand that feeds him adds a brick to this complicated and sick situation."
The Board of Directors at Central Fellowship Christian Academy, which rented a portion of their facility to Taylor for training, said in a statement: "We are shocked by the recent videos from Mark Taylor that have circulated on social media.
"We give no room for racism. With this said, people have associated Mark Taylor with our ministry, and that is an error. He is neither an employee of Central Fellowship Christian Academy nor a member of Central Fellowship Baptist Church.
"He has rented a portion of our facility to train athletes who are typically from schools in our local area. This is why our address is listed as the business address for his training company.
"That relationship has ended effective immediately."
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Taylor has not responded to requests for comment from The U.S. Sun and other publications.
NAACP leaders plan to speak out about the videos at an 11am news conference on Thursday.
