Ellie Kemper Apologizes For 'KKK Queen' Past!

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We’ve been waiting for this one. To be honest, we weren’t sure what kind of statement Ellie Kemper could make in response to the revelation she was a teenage “KKK queen” — or, more accurately, that she had been involved in a debutante ball put on by a traditionally racist organization with historical links to the Ku Klux Klan. Related: Decades Of Palace’s Institutional Racism EXPOSED In Unearthed Docs! We will say, this is a good start.

In an Instagram post on Monday, she writes: For reference, she was definitely old enough, as she was a student at Princeton at the time.

But access to the truth doesn’t always equal knowledge of it, as we know all too well these days. And it’s easy to stay ignorant when the system is only cheering you on.