TIL there's some fucked up rich people secret society in St Louis
TIL there's some fucked up rich people secret society in St Louis
Never heard of this before but learned about it when reading about zoroastrianism on wikipedia (i followed a link to read about diadems)
On December 23, 1972, six women with tickets provided by debutantes and two of them, white women Gena Scott and Jane Sauer, walked together into Kiel Auditorium, with no problem. Then Charles Reed, that year's Black Veiled Prophet went to the entrance with Beverly Crosby and Florence Jarrett, presented the gatekeeper with three tickets and a statement demanding entrance. They were denied entry because they were not "dressed properly." Refusing to leave, they were arrested and taken to a police station.[43]
Sauer and Scott took balcony seats on opposite sides of the house. During the program, Sauer began dropping leaflets into the audience, then "threw the rest of the leaflets over the railing" as two men converged on her and began to pull her away.[43]
Meanwhile, Scott was rappelling on a rope from a balcony when she tumbled hard to the floor, climbed to her feet, rushed to the stage, grabbed the crown and veil and yanked it from that year's VP. The Post-Dispatch reported that "the Veiled Prophet, whom everybody could see was bald, and very angry, struggled gallantly to restore the veil and its 95-year-old tradition [of anonymity] to its proper place."[43][44] The VP was later to be revealed as Monsanto executive Tom K. Smith Jr.[1]
Scott said: "The chairman of the VP committee, Alexander Cornwell Jr., had wanted to press charges, but when he was informed that the Veiled Prophet would have to appear in open court to do so, the whole matter was dropped." Scott's ribs were diagnosed as bruised and possibly broken.[43]
They could have done so much good if they went a step further than drama kid protests.
the Veiled Prophet, whom everybody could see was bald,
HE'S BALD!?
Like bro we all know it's a veil. Just shave it off.
Historian Thomas Spencer considered that the VP parade was created in part to displace the parades regularly held by the trade unions....
checks out yeah.
The funniest part is STL elites acting like they still run the fourth largest city in the country and not a rotted out shell that collapsed as quickly as it expanded.
Aren't these the really racist ones?
fucked up rich people
But I repeat myself.
The actress who plays Erin in The Office was one of the queens of the event lol.
There’s a guy on Tik Tok that does a lot of research on them. He collects the magazines they release every year and flips through them on video. What confuses me is whether or not the ball is supposed to be a beauty contest because a lot of the winners are…ugh…don’t wanna get banned but the only thing they share in common with Taylor Swift, Kate Moss, Jennifer Lawrence, etc is blonde hair 😬
I think it's okay to say that people don't match beauty standards. The blonde hair is definitely a factor though since this event used to be openly white-supremacist and now is just marginally closeted about that fact.
White supremacists’ obsession with blonde hair is so intriguing. I’ve always wondered: why blond? Why not red hair? Is it because blond is more closely associated with youth? (The blondest people I’ve seen are children and their hair usually darkens with age).
I get why they don’t like brown hair, though (i.e. because a lot of pocs have it). Kinda funny story: saw a screenshot of this racist trad wife account complaining about the men in her group only ever posting images of pale blondes, never brunettes. A literal call for DEI in a white supremacist group—the internet truly has it all. I guess it’s white ppl colorism lol.
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It was created 150 years ago as a way for the richest St. Louisans to try and work together to fuck over workers
Yes that's what I meant by "fucked up rich people secret society"
this isn’t “adrenochrome drinking satanic ritual” Epstein level fucked up secret society
well of course it isn't, because those aren't real