The Conservative Barf Bag Project proposes to demonstrate by sheer weight of numbers – so far the CBBA has been given 387 times – that barf baggery and conservatism can be correlated so frequently that concluding that a causal relationship exists is reasonable, even without specifying which is the cause and which is the effect. But what is the Committee to do when conservatism and barf baggery become indistinguishable? Such is the case with today’s recognition of the loathsomeness of David John Mays with the CBBA.
Richmond lawyer David Mays argued before the court that the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit segregation in public schools. When he failed, he went on to become the architect of the South’s campaign of “massive resistance” to integration.
From We the People by historian Jill Lepore
David John Mays, born in 1896, just seven years after the death of Jefferson Davis, was a child of The Lost Cause. “I had almost memorized the The Clansman when still a little fellow,” he recalled, referring to Thomas Dixon’s 1905 novel, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, in which a thinly disguised Thaddeus Stevens, calling the Constitution a “worn-out rag” (“We have outgrown the swaddling clothes of a babe. We will make new constitutions!”), orchestrates what Dixon calls “the Black Plague of Reconstruction,” leading heroic Southerners to form the Klan to defend the constitution in the spirit of “Chivalry, Humanity, Mercy, and Patriotism.” In 1915 Mays took the train from Virginia to the capital to watch D. W. Griffith’s film adaptation of the book, The Birth of a Nation. Two years later he’d seen his first lynching, in Memphis. He and his friends “howled with excitement” at the prospect, he wrote in his diary, and watched with a mob of three thousand as a Black man named Ell Persons was doused with gasoline. “When the match was applied,” Mays wrote, Persons “made no sound except for a faint pig squeal.”
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The Committee notes the cruel irony of the victim in this case is named Persons.
Never ever underestimate the malignance of conservatives.