Ellie Kemper sorry for being
queen of allegedly 'racist,
sexist and elitist' ball
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/7/2021 3:33:01 PM
Ellie Kemper has issued an apology after photos surfaced showing the actress being crowned the queen of a ball with ties to white supremacy when she was a teen. The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star, now 41, said she didn’t know the history of St. Louis’ Veiled Prophet Ball when she decided to participate, but isn’t making excuses for her past involvement. “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,” she began her lengthy Instagram post.
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New York moves closer
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to slavery reparations 34 replies
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Remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest,
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wife have been removed from Health
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It sure is interesting how many people who have crossed the Clintons end up dying way too young.
Biden signs on to $40T ‘Build Back Better
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My colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported earlier on a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, late Friday night.
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But it’s what the Austin American-Statesman said about that suspect that is causing a lot of talk today.
At the bottom of its article on the shooting, the paper included the following.
Editor’s note: Police have only released a vague description of the suspected shooter
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Hee-Haw Jill Biden met the Queen today in Windsor Castle.(Photo) The First Lady forgot her hose and went bare-legged for the visit with the Queen. But at least this was better than the first impression she set on Friday. Jill Biden forgot to buckle her belt during her first meeting with the Queen.(Photo) We went from flawless Melania Trump to this…(Photo) Joe Biden was just as tacky wearing aviators for his visit with Her Majesty.And, of course, he was taking cues from Nurse Jill on what to do next.(Photo) More…(Tweet)
Move over, Kamala Harris — Joe Biden is about to show you something about how to blow it abroad.
Here's an item from Gazeta.ru, a Russian private-sector outlet: [tweet with video] There's also this: [tweet with video] The first video shows him wandering into a cafeteria for the public instead of the special accommodations reserved for the G-7 leaders. Notice that the crowd guffaws as someone throws out a flip question, which he has to ask her to repeat. When he gives a dullard's answer, the laughter roars harder. It's an obvious mockery of a lost old fool looking for the buffet table at the senior citizens' home
Alexis Mirra has been learning how to sew the past few weeks, and even bought a thimble. It’s not a hobby, it’s a necessity to affix new patches on the uniforms of fellow police officers in Hopewell Township. The patches feature the colors from the Pride flag, the symbol of the LGBTQ community, and officers are voluntarily wearing them for the remainder of June, for Pride Month. The patches were Mirra’s idea and now project, and the detective believes a first in the Garden State.(Snip) About half the department is wearing the patches, which goes beyond their personal choice. “It shows support for the LGBTQ community
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New Dominion governor Ralph Northam posed either in blackface or in a KKK outfit (he refuses to say which he was, although he was dubbed "Coonman" in the caption), and that was OK. Fidel Castro's bastid son Justin Trudeau, prime minister of O Canada, posed in blackface and brownface many times, no big deal. So why is some TV actress being raked over the coals for nothing? Gives liberals something to think about other than the senile fraud they voted for, or the poison needle they lined up to take so one day they could stop wearing masks of their own.