Two-Cent Worth

About the Book

The writer was inspired to write the book entitled “Two-Cent Worth” because of the continuing worsen economic conditions of African-American citizens in the United States. The book is an indictment of the United States government and several states that have denied African- American citizens their rights under the United States Constitution.

The premise of the book is that the rights granted under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution have been violated since African-American citizens gained their rights in the 1860s and 1870s. The writer will take you on a journey demonstrating how the 13th, 14th and the 15th amendments to the United States Constitution were circumvented to allow the majority population to gain economic advantage at the expense of African-American citizens.

The book speaks on the use of the Christian religion to justify the denial of African-American citizens their constitutional rights. The book contain bible scriptures that illustrate the misuse and misinterpretation of the holy bible by entities who profit by denying African-American citizens their rights to housing, jobs, education, credit, land ownership, voting rights, and ect. The book also examines the role-play by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and the framer of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson is scrutinized because he was a slaveholder and his life contradicts the Declaration of Independence in which he wrote, “All men are created equal”. The book will open up the reader’s mind to why the United States and several states should pay economic reparations to African-American citizens for intentionally violating the constitutional rights of American citizens.

About the Author

The writer is fifty something and is the grandson of an Arkansas sharecropper and the son of a Detroit automobile factory worker. He has attended several colleges and universities such as Chicago State University, Roosevelt University, and Bellarmaine University. He is presently an educator in the Louisville, Kentucky public school system.