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This tuba player disrupted a KKK rally

by Jeremy Mersereau

In terms of ways to discredit and embarrass a group of people, playing a gigantic tuba as you march behind them ranks near the top. After all, “he who humiliates his enemies with the sound of an oversized horn need not fear the result of a hundred battles” – Sun Tzu, I’m pretty sure.

Protests and marches took place last weekend in South Carolina as state lawmakers deliberated on whether or not they should remove the Confederate flag from the capitol building. As defenders of the flag marched to a KKK-sponsored rally in downtown Columbia, sousaphonist Matt Buck decided to voice his opposition to the gathered beard-and-XXL-sweater set by soundtracking them with some appropriately bumbling tuba riffs, calling to mind a herd of lumbering pop culture elephants. Not the cool pop culture elephants like Elmer or that stone-cold boss Babar, some of the dumb ones.

“A few people had a few things to say, but nobody really confronted me or anything,” Buck told the Charleston City Paper. “My goal was to embarrass them, and I think I did a little bit.”

Watch the ownage here: