with white, male business and civic leaders. His intention was to form a secret society, which blended the “pomp and ritual” of Mardi Gras with “the symbolism used by Irish poet Thomas Moore.”Article content
“To underline the message of class and race hegemony, the image of the first Veiled Prophet is armed with a shotgun and pistol,” wrote Scott Beauchamp for the Atlantic in 2014.Article contentWhile Beauchamps noted that the Veiled Prophet bore a striking resemblance to a Ku Klux Klansman, in 2018, a lecturer for the University of North Carolinathat the image of the so-called prophet actually predates that of the KKK — which only started wearing its robes and hoods in the early 1900s.
In an attempt to rebrand itself, the Veiled Prophet Parade changed its name to “America’s Biggest Birthday Parade,” reported USA TODAY, although the ball and organization have both kept their original names.
Unless you are in literal blackface, I’m declaring a blanket amnesty for anything anyone did that someone finds “offensive” that happened before the year 2000.
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