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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Jul 23, 2015 9:39 AM UTC  Counter protesters and Ku Klux Klan members argue at a Klan demonstration at the state house building on July 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Counter protesters and Ku Klux Klan members argue at a Klan demonstration at the state house building on July 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. John Moore—Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Jul 23, 2015 9:39 AM UTC South Carolina has long been a crucible of racial friction, a truth tragically brought to light last month when 21-year-old Dylann Roof murdered nine African-Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. In the weeks since, these muted tensions have amplified, with a number of Confederate apologists loudly and defiantly standing by a heritage marred if not defined by prejudice. The great thing about America, though, is that for every pack of cringeworthy contrarians, you have someone able and eager to call their bluff. In this case, the contrarians are members of a contemporary incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan, and their most vocal opponent is a sousaphone-playing young man named Matt Buck. Last week, as the Klan revival group waved their Confederate flags through Columbia, South Carolina, Buck marched alongside them, huffing into his sousaphone (a version of the tuba modified for the marching band). “I didn’t really know how to show my opposition, so that was my way of doing it,” he told the [_Charleston City Paper_](http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/FeedbackFile/archives/2015/07/20/sousaphonist-serenades-confederate-flag-supporters-in-columbia). “My goal was to embarrass them, and I think I did a little bit.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3969202/tuba-kkk-march-ku-klux-klan-sousaphone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3969202/tuba-kkk-march-ku-klux-klan-sousaphone/"},"headline":"Watch This KKK March Get Trolled By a Man and His Tuba","datePublished":"2015-07-23T09:39:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:27.668Z","description":"\"I didn't really know how to show my opposition, so that was my way of doing it,\" Matt Buck says","url":"https://time.com/3969202/tuba-kkk-march-ku-klux-klan-sousaphone/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S.","Racism","South Carolina","Charleston","Columbia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5857a4bea66c5c7/69885c1f35ba6fca0bc0e512/gettyimages-481259366.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5857a4bea66c5c7/69885c1f35ba6fca0bc0e512/gettyimages-481259366.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ku Klux Klan Holds Rally Outside South Carolina Statehouse","caption":"Ku Klux Klan Holds Rally Outside South Carolina Statehouse","creditText":"John Moore—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3969202/tuba-kkk-march-ku-klux-klan-sousaphone/","name":"Watch This KKK March Get Trolled By a Man and His Tuba"}}]}] ```