Dorothy Roberts Fatal Invention Summary

The assigned reading for Tuesday was a hard reading with some great points. The reading, “Fatal Invention”, by Dorothy Roberts, talks about how genetics played a huge role in how race began and was used to categorize people. The first great point made in this article comes on page 58, when the author states, “Some genomics researchers see race as a statistical grouping based on genetic similarity.” (Roberts, 58) The author is stating here that race ties into how similar people are genetically similar. This is a strong point, in my opinion, because it shows that race is something that defines you based off of you genetic make and where your genetics lead. The only problem with this point I see is that Darwin’s theory eliminates race because