BATON ROUGE COACH SAYS HE WAS FIRED BECAUSE HE'S WHITE!

A case of reverse race discrimination is now in the hands of a judge after three days of testimony. A former Glen Oaks head football coach claims he was fired because he is white.

Testimony wrapped up around 5:30 Thursday evening. Former Glen Oaks head football coach Gary Burnett was the last person to take the stand.

Burnett told Judge Wilson Fields that the school's principal, Wilbert August Jr., told him in 2004, "White people did not understand the black culture." He was removed as the head coach in November 2005 and as athletic director in January 2006 after an overall 28/24 record.

The East Baton Rouge School Board called five witnesses Thursday. Their second witness, Principal August testified that race did come up in a booster meeting in 2005. The next witness, Herman Brister Jr. who replaced Gary Burnett as the head football coach, took the stand saying race never came up.

"I think that was shocking because August at the end of his cross-examination says, ‘Yes. I said we have black coaches here who can be role models for your kids,'" said Burnett's attorney, Jill Craft.

"People remember different things and obviously Mr. August said he did and Mr. Brister said he did not," said defense attorney Karen Murphy.

There were a number of inconsistencies among the five witnesses who testified.

"One said, ‘I didn't do the investigation.' The other one said, ‘She did the investigation.' And at the end they concluded there was no investigation," explained Craft. 

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