Ellie Kemper the actress who played Erin Hannon on The Office and starred in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has been outed as a KKK Princess.
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It started with this tweet alerting most of us to the existence of Klan Balls.
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Every once in a while I remember that the Veiled Prophet Ball exists and that everything True Detective season 1 was about is real
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And then
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Replying to @ChrisQRG1917 and @WB_Baskerville
A fancy event put on by our local KKK, of which Ellie Kemper was once the Queen of Love and Beauty theatlantic.com/politics/archi
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With receipts
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And a deeper dive if that wasn't enough for you
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Replying to @hannastasia and @Katchin05
She can’t. This old Reddit post has a link to a 2014 Wikipedia cache and it lists her 
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"1878, the cream of the crop in St. Louis, Missouri, started a secret society called the Veiled Prophet Organization. At its head was the mythical mystic, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan"
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Replying to @lenubienne @hannastasia and 2 others
I can’t stop reading about this, now. cracked.com/article_28179_
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Yes, the Veiled Prophets had Klan ties. From the reddit article
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For those who want a modern history lesson
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It is my time to shine. So the veiled prophet is an major institution in St. Louis rooted in a deeply troubling past; to call it a KKK princess isn't wrong but also not right twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin…
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Read her full apology on her IG:
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Ellie Kemper apologizes for participating in debutante ball with 'racist, sexist' past
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