Topic Option #3: An essential understanding of American Political Thought includes it’s ugly elements: racism, and sexism. In this option, identify at least 3 fundamental flaws in views that have advanced racist or sexist ideas and show how those flaws are refuted by texts we have read.

Topic Option #3: An essential understanding of American Political Thought includes it’s ugly elements: racism, and sexism. In this option, identify at least 3 fundamental flaws in views that have advanced racist or sexist ideas and show how those flaws are refuted by texts we have read.  *These identified flaws can include arguments referenced by writers we have read that critiqued the racist/sexist arguments, and do not necessarily have to come from an author advancing these abhorrent views.