It is an eloquent symbol of a certain kind of mentality, a way of thinking that is taking hold in America and threatens to plunge us into the same kind of ethnic warfare that has laid waste to Yugoslavia. America has its own Field of the Blackbirds, an episode in our own history that stands as a symbol of one racial group's historical oppression. And it is now being used, in that group's name, to justify looting and oppression against others. This cabal of lawyers is preparing to file an enormous lawsuit against the U.S. government and just about any corporation that was in existence prior to 1865. They are demanding that today's blacks be compensated for the wrongs allegedly committed by the government and private corporations under slavery.
Liability law is meant to compensate specific individuals for specific wrongs.
The Reparations Assessment Group wants to stretch that idea beyond the limits of absurdity. The people who are filing this lawsuit clearly are not concerned with punishing or compensating individuals. Instead, their focus is on the racial group . These racial collectives, not any individual persons, are the real parties in this lawsuit. And this is exactly the same mentality that makes the Serbs rally around the Field of the Blackbirds.