How to Embarrass a White Supremacist (With a Tuba)
A musician in South Carolina hit on an absolutely hilarious way to mock the Confederate flag-carrying white supremacists on their way to the Capitol last weekend — by marching along with them, playing a tuba. (Technically, a sousaphone, the marching band version of a tuba.)
I haven’t laughed so hard in weeks.
“I didn’t really know how to show my opposition, so that was my way of doing it,” [musician Matt] Buck says.
Buck says he had attended a peaceful counterprotest earlier in the day on the north side of the Statehouse grounds, and he happened to be on the south side when he saw people waving the flag as they marched down the street.
“Nobody knew where they were; we just happened to see them,” Buck says. “Most of the crowd was at the Statehouse waiting for them, and I saw them coming out of a garage.”
When it comes to song selection, Buck says he started out with the tune that the character Stewie plays on Family Guy in an episode where he gets paid to follow obese people around with a tuba — which, incidentally, is similar to the bass line from the Primus song “The Air is Getting Slippery.” Then he switched over to Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” which he says he picked due to its use in the classic Nazi car chase scene from The Blues Brothers.
“A few people had a few things to say, but nobody really confronted me or anything,” Buck says. “My goal was to embarrass them, and I think I did a little bit.”
(h/t: Aunty Entity Dragon.)
