This quote helps strengthen the main claim Chowkwanyun is making throughout the article. That point is that instead of people fighting against the idea of a hierarchy of races, people must abolish the idea of race altogether. This quote is an example of a situation in which someone taps into their idea of race as being an critical factor in a person’s biology. Since patient X is of a certain race, their race is the cause, or at least a major proponent, for whatever illness they are being diagnosed. The physician is not going further in depth to look into environmental, parental, or genetic factors to discover the root cause of the illness since they just base the cause of that illness on the patient’s race. If this became the most common way
