For a black man in years past to openly refer to a robed Klansman as a “clown” would have been a futile and foolhardy statement of defiance, ignorance, or stupidity. Here in 1978 Colorado Springs, the father showed bold courage by openly challenging the white-robed, Confederate flag symbolism and, while looking Ken straight in the eye, declared to his son and all those around, he was nothing more than a “clown.”
