Following my reconstruction of Linda Martin Alcoff’s argument I have found two crucial weak points in her article. First her argument fails to properly exam the biology of race. Second she fails to draw out one real issue which targets the uneducated elected officials as the deciders to dismiss classes they don’t know anything about. The biggest weak point in her article was making her opinion of the non-existence of race into sounding as if it were fact. She continues to make one random example after another. For example, “Human beings share over 99 percent of our genes across racial groups, and no single gene accounts for anything physical other than eye color, a rather insignificant attribute”. She also seems to throw off the reader making
