Counterprotesters at a 2012 Aryan Nations rally. (Photo by Maggie Winters)

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since we learned about the “white civil rights” rally planned in D.C. on the one-year anniversary of the fatal Charlottesville rally, but there’s already at least one counterprotest in the works.

It’s called “The REAL White People’s Rally,” and it’s being organized by local tour guide Tim Krepp for August 12.

“My instinct is to ignore these stupid things—it’s always six guys in a pickup truck and you don’t want to give them oxygen,” Krepp, who is white, tells DCist. “But I think something has snapped since Charlottesville. It’s not about them anymore. It’s about standing up and telling our friends and neighbors who are people of color that we stand with them.”

Jason Kessler, the man behind last year’s white supremacist Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, applied with the National Park Service for a permit at Lafayette Square on August 11 and 12. The application estimates an attendance of about 400 people, as well as “Antifa affiliated groups” Kessler says will try to disrupt them.

Historically, counterprotesters in D.C. come out, and often outnumber, demonstrators at white supremacist gatherings. Krepp says he’s not affiliated with anti-fascists—”They do their thing and that’s a whole different lane of the pool.”

NPS has not yet issued a permit to Kessler. “We are gathering information from the organizers on the details of the event that will be used to create the permit,” NPS spokesman Mike Litterst told DCist via email on Wednesday.

Krepp is also working to get a permit from NPS for his counterprotest. “I do want to state that we are not planning anything the least bit violent or illegal here,” he says. He’s open to suggestions for “a fun way to put something else out there” when it comes to defining white culture. So far, he says he’s heard from people calling for tubas, accordions, and other loud music.

He says he spoke with people of color before organizing the event and “they gave me a diversity of responses.”

The event page reads, “To my black and brown friends; I’m not asking you to believe me or to buy in to any of this. In fact, take the day off. … We’ll catch up on the 13th and get back to work together building a true multi-racial, multi-ethnic society that finally delivers opportunity and justice for all. We got a little housekeeping to take care of first.”