The former star of ‘The Office’ and ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Ellie Kemper is now under fire after it was revealed that she once won a beauty pageant from a group that reportedly has ties to the Klu Klux Klan.
As Yahoo Entertainment reports:
Twitter users were divided after a photo of actress Ellie Kemper being crowned the 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty at St. Louis’ Veiled Prophet Ball resurfaced According to a 2014 article in The Atlantic, the event’s organizers “emphasized the existing power structure” and banned Black and Jewish members.
So was no one gonna tell me Ellie kemper aka kimmy Schmidt was crowned KKK queen in 1999 pic.twitter.com/QdHJ6wGZGv
— charlie (@dianahungerr) May 31, 2021
The Veiled Prophet Ball has no known ties to the KKK, to be clear, although it has been targeted by Black Lives Matter in the past for what organizers see as its upholding of power structures in the area. The event, which is similar to a debutante ball in which parents present their children to society, has been around since the late 1870s and had an exclusionary past, according to the Atlantic piece.
“Created in 1878 by white male community leaders, the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophet of the Enchanted Realm sought to recreate the Mardi Gras type of community-wide celebration,” says St. Louis’ own government website of the event, which is still held today. “The traditional VP celebration has represented for St. Louisans a perceived link between different components of the community in a holiday celebration, while also reinforcing the notion of a benevolent cultural elite.”
The Veiled Prophet Ball has no known ties to the KKK, to be clear, although it has been targeted by Black Lives Matter in the past for what organizers see as its upholding of power structures in the area. The event, which is similar to a debutante ball in which parents present their children to society, has been around since the late 1870s and had an exclusionary past, according to the Atlantic piece.
Are activists on Twitter right to try and cancel Kemper over her appearance at a strange debutante ball when she was still in her teens or has cancel culture once again gone too far?
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These Burn, Loot, Murder wannabe Marxists need to be herded up and deported as criminals to Russia or N. Korea where they won’t survive very long.
You got that right Buck….
For God’s sake…the girl was just a kid…those debutante balls have been around for a long time….People used to accuse them of being for “snobby” people…
Get a life Libtards….you all are the ones that started the KKK anyway!
You got that right Buck!
Those debutante balls used to be accused of being for the “snobby” people.
Get a life Libtards, you Democrats are the ones who started the KKK in the first place.
Here we go again, grasping at STRAWS to get attention, creating Problems where none exist!
Are you kidding me? Are people suppose to do an investigation of and organization before they enter a comment? Show me that she was aware of the KKK ties, and you might have something to publish. Get a life.
These people need to get a grip on life for they are surely insane
They are deceitful, divisive and clever; it is the people who believe them, support them and join with them in their lawlessness behavior who allow themselves to be misled. BLM is using persons of color for personal gain; they have no great love or compassion for others with the same skin color.
Chances are that if you live in the south you’ve been friends with kkk members and didn’t even know because they are somewhat a secret society,so big deal it didn’t make me a member no more than being a free mason
oh contraire my friend. If you lived in the south you are inherently racist. Haven’t you heard of Critical Race Theory ? (note the sarcasm).
GEE! I guess she should have had her toilet paper traced back to what tree it came from to be sure it wasn’t racist and have been part of a stick that beat somebody. You CAN NOT ASSUME or take ANYTHING at FACE VALUE any more. I’m sure she had NO CLUE of the pageant’s connections. That TURD I dumped this morning was connected to that pork chop I ate last night and then to some pig that was raised on a farm confined in a pen that some animal rights clowns feel is racist and unfair. GET A LIFE FOOLS!
Oh my. Another Innuendo driven hit piece published for the sole purpose of dragging someone down who obviously has zero connection to any rate-hating group. These girls enter into as many pageants as they can to build scholarship money for school. I am curious how many white girls BLM has supported or helped with their college tuition….? does that make them anti-white racist bigots? Does any of the revenue from these spineless companies (and we are talking billions here folks) go to help assist anyone with education …black or white?
The article even says “no known ties to the KKK”. The only issue is BLM doesn’t like the organization. Well, I dont know about you folks, but I don’t exactly check my social register against BLM’s “do and don’t support” list. This is truly the height of “unfounded opinion stated as definitive fact”… Or, as someone recently said (can’t remember who), Fake News. and I have now spent 10 minutes composing a post… 10 minutes I will never get back.
Seems that Some Racist don’t want to heal the Racism of the Past in America . They prefer to fan the flames and make as much Money as they can extort from Good Americans that are Not Racist .
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