Ellie Kemper addresses involvement in white supremacist debutante ball

[kris_terror]

https://instagram.com/p/CP02q0Nt3-8

Follow up to this post.

Hi guys - when I was 19 years old, I decided to participate in a debutante ball in my hometown. The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist past. I was not aware of this history at the time, but it is no excuse. I was old

Comments

[orangutanis]

she understood institutional racism better than commenters in the previous post lol

[goldie3]

Were earlier posts messy? I didn't know who she was so didn't really go through the posts, then came to know on twitter that its erin on office

[doverz]

There was a lot of "but the ball wasn't associated with the KKK!" going on.

[orangutanis]

lots of "well she wasn't in the literal KKK so I guess that means this ball isn't a racist institution"

[skyler_white_yo]

Not messy, but weird. People were saying it wasn’t as bad because it was not an official KKK sponsored event, like other white supremacy groups that aren’t the KKK are somehow not as bad.

[trueloveisrarex]

this page in particular was annoying lol

[war_machine_rox]

Omg was the page deleted or is my phone wonky?

*lmao nevermind

[geneforrester]

i think your phone is wonky, i was able to click the link and have it load!

[war_machine_rox]

It works now idk what happened lol

[trueloveisrarex]

it originally was messed up for me but when I edited the link it worked 😊

[notblakelively]

lmao it's always the same racists too

[goldie3]

Lol none of those posters surprise me. I have always marked them as white feminists in my mind

[rainstormraider]

The usual suspects.

[kz3e]

I love your icon. Queen Nat <3

[orangutanis]

Thank you! She’s my fav Survivor winner and I have a special place in my heart for the Twinnies cuz they were the first south asian women I saw on reality TV lol

[kz3e]

Omg same! I loved the Twinnies since TAR and screamed when Nat won!