Actress Ellie Kemper, best known for her roles in “The Office” and “The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt,” has been the center of a Twitter firestorm this week due to her past involvement in the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Ball. In 1999, Kemper was crowned the ball’s queen of love and beauty. Originally from Ladue, Missouri in St. Louis County, Kemper is from a well-to-do family and the organization has a history of reinforcing the ideals of a “benevolent cultural elite.” But recently, the organization has been compared to the KKK on Twitter because it did not allow black members until the 1970s. It was originally founded in 1878 as a fraternal order for white elites that offered events for the working class, but its history is far more complex than Twitter users may know. The Mystical Order of the Veiled Profit was based on the epic hero, the Veiled Prophet of …