{"id":549282,"date":"2021-06-02T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549282"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:05:57","slug":"twitter-cancels-actress-for-attending-kkk-ball-20-years-ago-the-temptations-performed-at-same-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-cancels-actress-for-attending-kkk-ball-20-years-ago-the-temptations-performed-at-same-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Cancels Actress For Attending \u2018KKK Ball\u2019 20 Years Ago. The Temptations Performed At Same Event."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-cancels-actress-for-attending-kkk-ball-20-years-ago-the-temptations-performed-at-same-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549282&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-73909183.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>As Twitter erupted with accusations that \u201cOffice\u201d star Ellie Kemper was a KKK princess for her participation in a 1999 debutante ball, a deeper dive into the elite St. Louis group at the center of the story revealed any number of celebrity connections, many of them African-American.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As the Daily Wire previously <\/span><a href=\"about:blank\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>, the Veiled Prophet organization barred black membership from its 1878 founding until 1979, but it has no known connection to the KKK and had been integrated for 20 years by the time Kemper was crowned the \u201cQueen of Love and Beauty\u201d at age 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The accusations of \u201cracism\u201d stem from the wealth and influence of the group\u2019s members and the fact that one of its original founders was Confederate officer Alonzo Slayback. A 2019<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/history\/veiled-prophet-symbol-of-wealth-power-and-to-some-racism\/collection_8076f8b4-98a5-5935-9b57-134bcda6068e.html#3\"> <span>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/span><\/a><span> described the Veiled Prophet events, which include a ball and a parade, this way: \u201cThe prophet crowns a queen every year; their last names include Kemper, Busch, Danforth, Schnuck, Schlafly, Chouteau, Cabanne, Niedringhaus, Desloge and other historic St. Louis families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The group split the two events in 1992, moving the ball to the Friday before Christmas, while the parade received a name change to Fair St. Louis and a new date of July 4th weekend. However, both are still funded and hosted by the Veiled Prophet organization. This raises the question of whether Twitter, aided by numerous media reports, plans to publicly lambaste other celebrities with connections to the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petersuciu\/2021\/06\/01\/actress-ellie-kempers-veiled-prophet-ball-participation-trending-on-twitter\/?sh=7673f57f90c8\"><span>Forbes<\/span><\/a><span> reported on the political figures the elite dance has drawn in the past, saying, \u201cKemper, who comes from a wealthy mid-western family, isn\u2019t the first high-profile individual to have participated in the ball however, a fact largely not circulating on social media. In fact, Margaret Truman, daughter of former President Harry S. Truman, a Missouri native, had previously been a guest of the Veiled Prophets as had former President Grover Cleveland and his wife.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One high-profile figure Forbes didn\u2019t name: famed feminist and founder of Berkeley\u2019s Women\u2019s History Research Center,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laura_X\"> <span>Laura X<\/span><\/a><span> (born <\/span><span>Laura Rand Orthwein). X, who launched National Women\u2019s History Month and helped revive International Women\u2019s Day, received the same honor as Kemper in 1959.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairsaintlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Entertainment-HIstory.pdf\"> <span>list<\/span><\/a><span> of past performers at Fair St. Louis features an extensive array of stars who have taken part in the festivities much more recently, including many black artists: Ella Fitzgerald (1980), Dionne Warwick (1982), Harry Belafonte (1983), Ray Charles (1985), the Four Tops (1990), Smokey Robinson (1991), Patti LaBelle (2001), Kool and the Gang (2015), and Flo Rida (2016).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pop star Elton John <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/clip\/16340610\/st-louis-post-dispatch\/\"><span>performed<\/span><\/a><span> at the parade in 1982, entering in a \u201cveil\u201d of his own. Police smuggled him into the event disguised as an officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1987, ABC aired a special on the fair hosted by Oprah Winfrey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ball wasn\u2019t held in 2020 due to the pandemic, but in 2019 black R&#038;B artist Keith Sweat headlined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The year Kemper was crowned queen of the event that is now threatening her career, Dionne Warwick, Hootie and the Blowfish, and The Temptations performed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Twitter erupted with accusations that \u201cOffice\u201d star Ellie Kemper was a KKK princess for her participation in a 1999 debutante ball, a deeper dive into the elite St. Louis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278895,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-73909183.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Twitter Cancels Actress For Attending \u2018KKK Ball\u2019 20 Years Ago. 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