When Matt Buck found out the Ku Klux Klan was planning a march on the South Carolina State House, he wanted to fight back with the weapon he knew best: his sousaphone.
Now the video of the musician's protest had gone viral, and he's being called "an American hero."
According to the Daily Beast, Buck created a lumbering two-song "Hate Concerto for Sousaphone" then marched alongside the KKK protesters.
“That first little ditty was a little marching baseline. It’s a very lethargic one that they used to use in old Looney Tunes cartoons,” he says. “It got really popular in Family Guy, when Stewie quits his day job to start following a fat guy around all day long while playing it.”
Then he moved on to a more politically charged tune, Wagner’s "Ride of the Valkyries."
"In movies, it’s used as sort of a ride of the bad guys,” he says. “In Blues Brothers, they use it to make fun of the Nazis. So I thought it’d be fun to make fun of the KKK the way they did with the Nazis in the movies.”
Buck says the video was shot by a stranger, and he had no idea it was going online — but it has now reached over four million views, and people have been showering him with praise for his unusual, but highly effective, efforts.
"I didn't really know how to show my opposition, so that was my way of doing it," Buck told the Charleston City Paper. "My goal was to embarrass them, and I think I did a little bit."
by Jennifer Van Evra via Electronic RSS
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