Former Brown Basketball Coach Robinson - Obama's Brother-in-Law - Sues Kids' School Alleging Racism
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Former Brown Basketball Coach Robinson - Obama's Brother-in-Law - Sues Kids' School Alleging Racism
The couple joined "Good Morning America" on Tuesday morning to discuss the suit against the University School of Milwaukee.
“This all started as a lot of parents — we heard what was going on in the classroom, because of COVID,” said Robinson. “And there were repeated uses of racial and ethnic stereotypes that were in actual assignments — the use of the word ‘plantation’ and things of that nature.”
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“In all of this, we thought maybe we’ll have a communication with them and give them some suggestions. And once we gave them those suggestions and had a little bit of a back-and-forth, they summarily dismissed our young children, retaliating against them because of the issues that we brought up.'
About Robinson
Robinson, who was the two-time Ivy League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year while attending Princeton, was drafted in the fourth round of the NBA but never played.
He became head coach at Brown University in 2006, before being lured away for the head coaching job at Oregon State in 2008. He was hired by the Milwaukee Bucks as VP of Player Development in 2016 before he left to join the Knicks in a similar post.
In 2020, he was named the Executive Director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.