“So no one gonna tell me Ellie Kemper aka kimmy Schmidt was crowned KKK queen in 1999,” wrote someone else. ellie kemper was apparently crowned in a legit kkk beauty pageant,” wrote one user. The stories got going after some excitable person on Twitter contrived a link between Kemper and the Klan over the picture of her being crowned “Prophet Queen” in the 1999 ball, when she was 19.
Actress Ellie Kemper won the Queen of Love and Beauty at the Veiled Prophet ball in 1999. The more eccentric aspects of the VP ball were dropped one by one and it became a Fourth of July party. A hooded costume worn at the first ball looked like the outfit adopted by Klansmen more than 20 years later first-generation Klansmen didn’t have a uniform.Įssentially the VP ball was just a party where rich people celebrated themselves, dolled up with silly details meant to make it seem mystical. Louis tradition that was founded in 1878 by an ex-Confederate, but it isn’t linked to the Klan. Louis Post Dispatch/PolarisĮven “tenuous” is too strong a word for the nonexistent link between Kemper and the KKK. The problem is that a sound debunking doesn’t quite stick in people’s minds as well as “KKK princess.” Ellie Kemper at the ball 22 years ago in St. As the story went on, it debunked itself. It was founded by a Confederate soldier but its ties to the KKK are tenuous at best.” Well, that’s quite a comedown, from “racist” in the headline to a “tenuous at best” link to the KKK right below that. The Daily Beast story starts to dissolve in its own juices in the subhead, “The ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ star was Queen of the Veiled Prophet Ball as a teen in 1999. “Yes, The Office’s Ellie Kemper Was Beauty Queen of a Racist Ball - and She Was Escorted by a Bush” ran a typical headline in the Daily Beast, the online wokester version of the Weekly World News, only without the adorable pictures of baby vampires.Ĭhimed in the Daily Mail, “Ellie Kemper faces backlash after ‘racist’ pageant photo resurfaces.” The Daily News screamed, “ ‘The Office’ star Ellie Kemper called out for once attending debutante ball with racist history.” That’s like saying everyone who ever went to Six Flags Great Adventure should be “called out” for attending a park with racism embedded in its very name (one of the flags in question is the one flown by the Confederate States of America). Yet thanks to some idiots on social media, and some practitioners of journalism who ought to know better, she will apparently now forever be considered some sort of adjunct KKK princess by stupid people for the crime of having attended a debutante ball as a teen.
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