MISSOURI DEMOCRATS' NEW SENATE CANDIDATE WAS CROWNED QUEEN OF WHITES-ONLY BALL

[Texacon]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216547595


 

They're so inconsistent.  Don't want to hold a teenager responsible for bad decisions ... Anyone want to dig up some of the Brett Kavanaugh posts?   

Omaha Steve (84,265 posts)


MISSOURI DEMOCRATS' NEW SENATE CANDIDATE WAS CROWNED QUEEN OF WHITES-ONLY BALL



Trudy Busch Valentine, who joined the race Monday, was crowned queen of the St. Louis elite’s Veiled Prophet Ball in 1977.

By Sara Sirota

IN DECEMBER 1977, Trudy Busch, an heir to the Anheuser-Busch fortune in Missouri, was crowned “Queen of Love and Beauty” at the controversial Veiled Prophet Ball. Outside, two protesters belonging to a civil rights group, ACTION, were arrested for demonstrating against it. Inside, photos from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch show, Busch stood alongside the “veiled prophet”: a man chosen to oversee the annual ball whose identity remains hidden beneath a white cloth resembling the hoods worn by Ku Klux Klan members.

The 1977 ceremony marked a special anniversary for the Veiled Prophet Organization, a secret society of Missouri elites dedicated to maintaining white supremacy and unchecked corporate power. It was founded by former Confederate officers in the wake of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 — an effort to forge a populist, multiracial working-class coalition to oppose the era’s robber barons — and began hosting the ball as its annual celebration after federal troops smashed the worker revolt. A hundred years later, the affair was less of a secret but no less controversial.


A digitally archived page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published on December 23, 1977, shows Trudy Busch Valentine as the crowned queen of the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Ball. Photo: St. Louis Post-Dispatch


It would have been difficult for Busch — now Busch Valentine, and a new Democratic candidate for Senate from Missouri — to avoid learning about the controversy. At the time Busch won the title, Black and Jewish people weren’t allowed to join the organization; that wouldn’t come until 1979. In 1972, five years prior to Busch’s crowning, activist Gena Scott entered the ball and unmasked the “veiled prophet”; Scott’s car was later bombed, and her house was vandalized. One of the protesters in 1977 was arrested for using a “disabling chemical spray” at the affair the year prior. And at Busch’s crowning, “There were extensive and extraordinary security measures,” an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.

“I believe in the importance of working together and healing divisions — and that starts with acknowledging my own past shortcomings,” Busch Valentine wrote in a statement to The Intercept. “I failed to fully grasp the situation. I should have known better, and I deeply regret and I apologize that my actions hurt others. My life and work are way beyond that, and as a candidate for Missouri’s next US Senator, I pledge to work tirelessly to be a force for progress in healing the racial divisions of our country.”

FULL story here: https://theintercept.com/2022/03/30/missouri-senate-trudy-anheuser-busch-ball/

This should end her candidacy.

TreasonousBastard (40,250 posts)

1. Sorry, but a lot of things were happening 50 years ago and...

it's tough to condemn someone for a bad decision back then.

Far more interested in what this trust fund babe has been doing lately.

brooklynite (76,962 posts)

2. 45 years ago. As a teenager.

Let's definitely write her off.

I knew brooklynite wouldn't be gone long.  His pockets are too deep for them to not let him come back.

dsc (51,065 posts)

3. She was either 19 or 20

frankly, I wouldn't want to be judged on my behavior into my 20's. I was an alcoholic into my 30's.

Ferrets are Cool (15,800 posts)

4. "This should end her candidacy."

This is so much ****ing bullshit.  For something that happened 50 ****ing years ago??? Really???

KC

[67 Rover]

brooklynite (76,962 posts)

2. 45 years ago. As a teenager.

Let's definitely write her off.

OK now do Sheldon only Whites in the house for his family's current membership in a Whites only beach club and yacht club.  I'll wait....   

[SVPete]

After the way Dems based false accusations against Kavanaugh from a time they thought he would not have records or detailed memory, from the way Dems probably dug into Amy Coney Barrett's Kindergarten records, it's payback, b@#$%es.

More seriously, yeah, people change and grow, both Rs and Ds.

[Zathras]

If it wasn't for double standards DUmbasses would have no standards at all.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Brett Kavanaugh would like a word, DUmmies.

[Aristotelian]

Senator Byrd applauds the wisdom and consistency of the DUmmies...

[Mr Mannn]

A Whites only dance might hold some water...if only the Black students weren't doing the exact same thing today.

[jukin]

Let the "It's different when democrats do it excuses fly" my stupid little DUmpmonkeys. Fly my fat uglies, FLLYYYYY!