Tonja Renée Stidhum should be fired. Seriously. Everyone connected to spreading this “news” is contributing to bullying and harassment, aimed at someone who hasn’t done anything wrong and hasn’t even provenly done something racist. Both the AV Club and The Root are just reacting to online Twitter trolls and trends…

Really doubling down on that KKK Princess thing, aren’t you?

This is some “much ado about nothing” BS...slow news week, huh.

Most reasonably commentarians on Gawker media. Right here.  

Y’all should let this one go unless there are meeting minutes of her pledging to uphold this groups founding ideals.

The ball has NO connection to the KKK and was racially-inclusive for TWENTY years prior to Kemper’s involvement. Did Kemper even know that the ball was racially-exclusive before she was born? Where is the proof that she is racist? She went to a party that was once put on by racists. So what? The Democratic Party was…

Lol. You have succeeded where I doubt anyone else has. You have united the commenters and grays against an author on The Root!

Pretty sure the rest of the internet is calling this whole story BS. 

Lord, do better than this. “She was involved in something as a child that was founded as racist 100 years prior so she’s clearly part of the KKK!” is an unbelievable stretch. If there *is* something to this story - if she knew the history at the time and willingly participated in it - this author completely fails to…

This seems to just be inflammatory horseshit. I’m not a white person btw.

Someone said “it’s fair to say that given the US and its penchant for obfuscation of the truth, that she could have participated and have no idea of the history of the organization she represented at the time” and that sums it up for me. She was 19 in a white privilege bubble (and when you’re that rich that bubble’s…

Or just people going to Disneyland and riding Splash Mountain.

Succeed in life.

“The Root has reached out to her representatives and are awaiting a response.”

Given the bent of this article, why on earth would they want to respond to you? This is click-baity nonsense. 

Where’s the button to downvote this article? Or do I just set my adblock to hella aggressive?

Oh come on, man, this fruit is so low hanging it’s touching the damn Earth. Just because she attended this event and was honored there doesn’t make her secretly racist or KKK Royalty, as you put it. You know what other places and events have sordid histories of racism and exclusion? Plantations, sports fields,…

This article is pure libel. The author presents zero evidence that Ellie has any ties to anything remotely racist. She at one point in her life attended a fair that almost certainly had already had its name changed, and how many 12 year olds are actively researching the potential racist history of everything they do…

“Since we don’t know exactly how Kemper reflects on her teenage prejudice princess pastime”

Why do they owe you or anyone else an explanation? Who cares other than people virtue signaling and posting to their not followed twitter “why is no one talking about this!?!” Because no one gives a shit besides you.