Freak

The book freakanomics displayed different topics in which the authors gave their opinion and hidden sides of the topic. I believe it was written this book to show the readers that there are mysteries and hidden facts that the economy doesn’t want you to know about. There was this specific passage that stood out to me:“I ain’t no African American either, you idiot, I’m a nigger.”  J.T. then administered a lively though not unfriendly taxonomical lesson in “nigger” versus “African American” versus “black”. I feel like you can’t say there are different types of African Americans. To me there is no difference between “blacks”, “niggers”, and African Americans. I can say the same for any other race like Mexicans for example since I’m Mexican. People call Mexicans beaners, wetbacks, Pisa, etc. they are still Mexican regardless. Another thing is that if you have a lot of money or no money at all it doesn’t make you a different race you can’t change that with however much money. The book to me was easily readable, but at times it was too much random facts. The book used a lot of words I didn’t know so that was a plus and gave me the opportunity to learn and look up words. I would say I would recommend this book to people but to keep an open mind. It will help you to look at different sides of things and I think the authors did a good job of keeping me interested with all the different chapters, they got me to wonder, what will happen next?