Boots Riley

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401 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

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Fresh Air · Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you · 13 May 2026 podcast

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

The plan is to march down to the school board.

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

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.

I see it.

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

And so I was like, okay.

And everybody was like, what are you doing?

Yeah.

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.

And we eventually get the bullhorn back from him.

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

Right.

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

They were so this was the 80s.

This is 86.

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

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.

And so we were drunk with power, basically.

We're like, what?

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