Pro-Confederate Flag Protestor Wears FUBU Sneakers, KKK Tattoo [PHOTO]

By Alexandra Svokos (alexandra.svokos@mstarsnews.com) | Aug 05, 2015 09:10 PM EDT

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An unidentified man with a KKK tattoo at a recent Confederate flag rally at Stone Mountain, Georgia, was carrying a Confederate flag while wearing FUBU shoes. A local journalist confronted the man, trying to explain FUBU's origins.

FUBU was founded by Daymond John and his friends J. Alexander Martin, Keith Perrin and Carlton Brown in Queens, N.Y. They created the brand "for us, by us" to support black entrepreneurship and success.

"I didn't know if you were aware. The brand FUBU, it stands for 'For us, by us,'" George Chidi, a local journalist who confronted the man, said, explaining the brand's origins.

The man, who said he was "not here as a Klansman, [but] as a southern American," had a Ku Klux Klan tattoo, according to AJC. He was confrontational with Chidi, who was eventually told to leave by law enforcement to avoid further confrontations. The rally was at Stone Mountain, which is the site of a contested Confederate memorial that the Atlanta NAACP has called to be removed.

The man initially asked what the problem was with his shoes, which were, indeed, red, black and white.

"It doesn't matter who, what I wear. I don't care what it's by. I bought them. It's my right to buy them," the man said. "The shoes that you wore were probably designed by a white man in the 1920s. But does that make you stop wearing those shoes because a white man designed them? I don't care if a black man designed my shoes."

This is the snafoo to hit a Confederate flag rally. At a rally in Dalton, GA, two trucks had a minor car crash, which was all caught on video. At another Confederate rally in South Carolina, Matt Buck, an anti-KKK protestor, mocked the ralliers by playing tunes from Family Guy on a sousaphone.

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