We say a society is free if the individuals who make up that society are free. For individuals to be free, they must have certain unalienable rights, and others upon which they had agreed with one another. Group rights are the negation of individual rights. Groups have no standing in the eyes of the law. Individual rights recognize and promote similarity.
Group rights promote differences and stereotypes.
Individual rights and group rights are mutually exclusive. One cannot have it both ways. Among our individual rights, the right to acquire and hold property has a special place. If ever a concept came to be developed to protect the weak against the strong, to balance inborn gifts with the fruits of sheer diligence and industry, property inviolate is its name. But who am I to speak, after John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison have pronounced on this topic.