If you're a collectivist, you can combine historical amnesia and urination upon your own heritage with no problem whatsoever.

Black lawyer group turns back on legacy of Deacons in Mississippi brief.

But when the face-palming will begin for civil rights advocates (at least those who recognize the right to keep and bear arms as a fundamental protection for minorities against persecution), is when the MBA makes numerous cites of discriminatory edicts designed to render slaves and then free blacks disarmed. That they then turn around and use that to justify power for the state to mandate individuals be defenseless is simply astounding for anyone who has noted and lauded the example set by the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

That the direct beneficiaries of that struggle side with the citizen disarmament legislative, judicial and prosecutorial axis suggests there is more underlying their position than the times have changed, especially since human nature hasn't. The Magnolia Barr Association clearly knows its history. So favoring state-enforced arms prohibitions over the dignity and rights of individuals suggests what has changed is the agenda of a stratified so-called “leadership,” working now to secure and advance their connected positions of access and privilege above all else.