The “Bastards” Motorcycle Club Is Redefining Racist Biker Culture
<p>They showed up wearing all black, covered in tattoos and making more noise than any of the white supremacist groups at the Ku Klux Klan rally earlier this month at the South Carolina statehouse in Columbia. The patches on their vests read “Bastards,” a title members of this motorcycle club embrace. The signs they carried through a crowd of more than 2,000 neo-Nazis, New Black Panthers and Klansmen protestors included language that was even more crass.</p>
<p>“Most of the crowd thought we were white supremacists,” the club’s president, Steven “Chavez” Parker told Vocativ — and he was right. Initially, protestors and white supremacists alike didn’t know what to make of Parker and his motley crew of misfit bikers. When they raised the signs they’d spent hours painting the day before the July 18 rally — ”FUCK THE KKK,” read one sign and “MY BABY MAMA IS BLACK,” read another — it was clear whose side the Bastards MC was on.</p>
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