Unveiling the Prophet with Devin O'Shea

Now, you mentioned Vervis, and Vervis has been protesting in St. Louis, all kinds of things, but the Veil Prophet Society as well, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

been a big part of that whole, I mean, protest is big in St. Louis.

We love, we love to go yell about shit

and, and thank

goodness for it.

You know, like we, we should, uh, more people absolutely should be doing this.

Um, but like, how long has this really been going on against the, uh, veil profit society? And is that still like today? Like when they have their VP, uh, the veil profit ball, is there still a big protest that happens during that?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's like the most direct connection is just from the 1960s in the civil rights movement where it just starts this, you know, Percy Green in action are sort of just the St. Louis staples of that era.

Percy Green is like a really, really important part of St. Louis's history.

you know, progressive black history.

And he famously climbed the arch when it was under construction.

He was always taking aim at these hyper symbolic things in the city in order to draw attention to the fact that the city was like immiserating the African-American community.

And the veiled prophet became like a perfect hyper symbolic targets in that era.

And then that all culminates with this big unveiling, a big dramatic thing in 1972.

But basically after that, Well, before that, there's also the labor movement in the 1930s that targets the veiled prophet as, again, just this symbol of the boss and the boss being a Klansman who splits the workers between white and black and dissolves solidarity in that way.

And then after the unveiling, you get into like the 90s, early 2000s.

There's still this...

Consistent understanding that the Veiled Prophet is a racist, elitist thing and that it is kind of what's everything that's wrong with the city in a big way.

And then it just keeps coming back every time there's sort of like civic turmoil.

But as of late, the protest has been like less intense.

During Ferguson, there was a big protest there.

Because Sam Dodson, of course, the chief of police was like a honored guest of the veiled profit ball.

And they had a like SWAT team with a bunch of, you know, riot shields and stuff in the in the guest room of the hotel waiting for the protests to show up.

And that's and it's called out.

Now, you mentioned Vervis, and Vervis has been protesting in St. Louis, all kinds of things, but the Veil Prophet Society as well, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

been a big part of that whole, I mean, protest is big in St. Louis.

We love, we love to go yell about shit

and, and thank

goodness for it.

You know, like we, we should, uh, more people absolutely should be doing this.

Um, but like, how long has this really been going on against the, uh, veil profit society? And is that still like today? Like when they have their VP, uh, the veil profit ball, is there still a big protest that happens during that?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's like the most direct connection is just from the 1960s in the civil rights movement where it just starts this, you know, Percy Green in action are sort of just the St. Louis staples of that era.

Percy Green is like a really, really important part of St. Louis's history.

you know, progressive black history.

And he famously climbed the arch when it was under construction.

He was always taking aim at these hyper symbolic things in the city in order to draw attention to the fact that the city was like immiserating the African-American community.

And the veiled prophet became like a perfect hyper symbolic targets in that era.

And then that all culminates with this big unveiling, a big dramatic thing in 1972.

But basically after that, Well, before that, there's also the labor movement in the 1930s that targets the veiled prophet as, again, just this symbol of the boss and the boss being a Klansman who splits the workers between white and black and dissolves solidarity in that way.

And then after the unveiling, you get into like the 90s, early 2000s.

There's still this...

Consistent understanding that the Veiled Prophet is a racist, elitist thing and that it is kind of what's everything that's wrong with the city in a big way.

And then it just keeps coming back every time there's sort of like civic turmoil.

But as of late, the protest has been like less intense.

During Ferguson, there was a big protest there.

Because Sam Dodson, of course, the chief of police was like a honored guest of the veiled profit ball.

And they had a like SWAT team with a bunch of, you know, riot shields and stuff in the in the guest room of the hotel waiting for the protests to show up.

And that's and it's called out.