HANK FRIEDMAN, Mentally-Disordered-Sex-Offender, SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED IN 1972

Hank Friedman’s serial adult sexual misconduct against children at Beverly Hills High School (BHHS) should have been stopped in 1972, saving nine years of survivors, because a discrimination complaint by Mike Higginbotham’s parents that should have gotten several BHHS coaches fired was ignored by the Supt. of BH schools.

EVIDENCE: F. Michael Higginbotham, Ghosts of Jim Crow, p. 8: “Yet while white players whom I had outperformed only months earlier, were promoted to the varsity level, I was not. In response to this apparent oversight, my parents met with the school district’s superintendent (Ken Peters). Concerned that I had not been treated fairly by two members of the Beverly Hills High School Athletic Department staff (Hank Friedman, baseball, football; Ben Bushman, athletic director, head football coach), they questioned whether racism was involved.”

“While the superintendent appeared sympathetic, he indicated that the athletic director, (Bushman), had primary responsibility for making sure athletes were treated fairly. The superintendent arranged a meeting between my parents and the athletic director. At this meeting the athletic director appeared angry, apparently due to the racism allegation. Rather than question his own conduct, or the conduct of any member of his coaching staff, he instead spent the entire meeting denigrating my performance, ability, and character. I was labeled as a problem player with all sorts of negative connotations such as lazy, selfish, and uncommitted, all adding up to an easily alleged but hard to define character flaw: a bad attitude.”

EVIDENCE: Ghosts of Jim Crow, p. 9: “After receiving a letter from Yale’s head football coach expressing interest in my career, requesting game film of my performance, and informing me that his two previous requests to my high school athletic department had not been answered, I became very angry. I started to have serious doubts about the sincerity of whites.”

Ghosts of Jim Crow was written by F. Michael Higginbotham, Professor, School of Law, University of Baltimore, and published in 2013. This is a non-fiction book and the facts described have not been questioned by anyone.