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Boots Riley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
401 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And I'm saying things about what we're going to do.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

The plan is to march down to the school board.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And the principal, Mr. O'Leary, who is an ex-cop,

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

buff and walked around in a pose with his arms out so you knew that his biceps were too big for his arms to go at his side.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

I see it.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And he walks out there and he says, Riley, give me that bullhorn.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And so I was like, okay.

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Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And everybody was like, what are you doing?

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Yeah.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And as I was handing it to him and trying to take it back, like a good 15 or 20 students come and help me to try to pull it from him.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And we eventually get the bullhorn back from him.

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Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

But this guy, Navin, it cuts his arm and it splurts out onto a Leary shirt.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

Right.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And we all marched down to the we all marched down.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

They were so this was the 80s.

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Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

This is 86.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And so in my lifetime, my conscious lifetime, I had never seen anything like that.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

But I think it scared the school board to where as soon as we got there, they came out and announced they were reversing their decision.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

And so we were drunk with power, basically.

Fresh Air
Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

We're like, what?