A former Utah student has filed a lawsuit against both the Davis School District and her former basketball coach for racial discrimination. According to ABC 4, Ebony Davis says that she experienced harassment on a regular basis, and even alleges that she was called the N-word while walking through the halls.
Davis’ lawyers, Wayne Caldwell and Aaron Bergman, claim that students would also ask for her an “N-word pass” so they could “supposedly use the n-word in addressing her without recourse.”
They also stated there was an incident when a student turned off the lights in the classroom and yelled, “Oh, where did Ebony go!” However, the district’s athletic director and coach of the girls’ varsity basketball, Robert Reisbeck, reportedly made things even worse.
The lawsuit states that Reisbeck would call money “white people’s problems” and remarked that Davis’ hair “does not…