On Saturday, the Ku Klux Klan joined up with the National Socialist Movement (a neo-Nazi group from Michigan, which is just as bad as Illinois Nazis) for a good old-fashioned rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were there to express their support of the fundamentals of any white supremacist movement: affordable healthcare, livable wages, and, of course, marriage equality.
Kidding! They were just there to be a bunch of racists.
But to their surprise, they were outnumbered 5-1 by counter-protesters. These weren’t just any counter-protesters, these were counter-protesters dressed as clowns. With their colorful wigs, face paint, red noses, and we can only assume one comically small car that they were all able to fit into, they honked horns, blew whistles and squeezed squeaky toys to drown out the KKK, and it worked.
“The message from us is, you look silly,” said Lacey Williams, the youth coordinator for Charlotte’s Latin American Coalition. “We’re dressed like clowns and you’re the ones that look funny.”