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Speaker 1: I was a leady rebel, Like, what does.

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Speaker 2: That even need?

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Speaker 3: The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels

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Speaker 3: with the image of.

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Speaker 2: Right here in black and white and.

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Speaker 4: Friends bigger than a flag or mascot.

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Speaker 2: Anytime you're trying to mess with tradition, you get to

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Speaker 2: be ready for a serious backlash.

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Speaker 4: Hi. I'm Akila Hughes, and I'm so excited about my

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Speaker 4: new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my

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Speaker 4: hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school

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Speaker 4: to change their racist mascot the Rebels into something everyone

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Speaker 4: in the South loves. The Biscuits.

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Speaker 5: Just tell me you're not going to name my baseball

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Speaker 5: team after a WaterTower.

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Speaker 6: John Alexander Way, that's the guy individual that came to

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Speaker 6: the school saying that God sent him to talk to

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Speaker 6: me about the mascot switch. Is a leader who choose

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Speaker 6: hills that you want to die on.

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Speaker 5: There's a safe way to reveal a mascot. They went

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Speaker 5: in the opposite direction.

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Speaker 1: They are called segregation academies. When the Civil Rights said

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Speaker 1: that we need to integri public schools, these charter schools

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Speaker 1: were exempt from that.

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Speaker 7: Why would we want to be the losing team. I

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Speaker 7: just take all the other stuff out of it. We're

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Speaker 7: rocking the team with the helm.

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Speaker 1: The chair of Mom's ce Liberties is one of the

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Speaker 1: board members.

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Speaker 7: Oh, there are meetings.

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Speaker 1: Definitely like this is a foreur alarm fire suddenly.

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Speaker 4: Listen to Rebel Spirits starting on September third on the

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