Assemblyman/Coach Wimberly Makes Impassioned Plea to Repollet
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An impassioned Assemblyman Benjie Wimberly (D-35) urged Department of Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet to continue to educate people to resist racism in public education.
"That kid won, and I have never seen anyone so defeated in my life," said Wimberly, a legendary football coach in his hometown of Paterson, referring to an African American wrestler forced to get his haircut at a match in Buena Vista.
"You need to train the coaches and the administrators," said Wimberly. "We need to school people."
The refs also need training. What happened to that poor young man was an absolute disgrace and totally preventable. As a former high school coach, I would have been ejected, suspended and probably fired defending my athlete.