High school's Rebel Man mascot stirs up controversy

CBS, wtsp.com 9:55 a.m.
EDT July 9, 2015

... The Vestavia Hills High School mascot, the Rebel Man, and slogan, "Go Rebels," are raising concerns, and now the local school board is debating whether the image must go, CBS News' Mark Strassmann reports.

"Let's find a symbol that embodies who we are today and not who were in our tragic past," recent Vestavia Hills graduate Olivia Brooks said.

Many of the 200 people at the meeting thought of each other as the Rebel family. But, for some, it was a family revolt.

"There is no question in my mind that the Confederate soldier and the plantation owner are symbols of racism," Brooks said ...

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