What is Post-Negro Studies?
In addition to our current philosophical offering, The Great Correction: Rethinking Our View of the World and Mankind, IAATP also created the field of Post-Negro Studies to address the widespread lack of understanding of the Black American Experience among Black Americans themselves. This new paradigm focuses on the concept of Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh), or Post-Negroism. Ajise is a Yoruba word that means “one who awakens and achieves.” It’s also the name of a more effective Black American culture for the 21st century and beyond, not a mere re-creation of African traditions. In Ajise, Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes) is seen as the most problematic legacy of U.S. slavery and racism as well as one of our major problems as a people today. In other words, since we were indeed reduced to the deeply dysfunctional state called Negroism during the long centuries of American slavery, we will never get anywhere we need to be as a people until we actually lift ourselves out of this condition in sufficient numbers. Furthermore, Negroism affects all of our social and economic classes and tends to get worse, not better, with each succeeding generation. Twenty first century Negroism is, therefore, the latest and most virulent form of this affliction just as the 21st century Negro is the most wayward American Negro ever.
Among the works currently found in our Post-Negro Studies line up is: The Alchemy of Black Liberation and the Post-Negro Worldview also known as TABL (Table). This work is a commentary on the Unwritten Book of Life (UBL) or Black American history from the Post-Negro, or Ajise perspective. In this light, TABL is also an introduction to Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) or Post-Negroism which teaches us that just as White Americans must truly move beyond their racist past, so too must Black Americans truly move beyond their Negro past. To this end, TABL introduces the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR) as an effective replacement for the Culture of Shared Misery (COSM) or traditional Black American culture. The CORAR is not only synonymous with Ajise (the two terms are interchangeable) it also points the way to the much-needed Post-Negro phase of Black American history, an historical phase that is yet to be realized. In Ajise or Post-Negroism, Black liberation is equated to overcoming the affliction of Negroism, one individual at a time.
What is the true identity of the Black American People?
The second work in our current Post-Negro Studies offering is: The Second Emancipation and the Path of the True Descendent, which serves as an instruction manual for those aspiring to successfully complete IAATP’s Second Emancipation Program. This program makes overcoming Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes) possible for those Black Americans who’re dissatisfied with the current direction of both mainstream American and Black American cultures and seek something better for themselves and their loved ones.
In TSEP, we learn that the Negro identity is merely an artificial ethnic construct of the slavery era and not our true identity. We became Negroes due to the unjust demands of U.S. slavery and racism, so our true ethnic identity as a people is also our Post-Negro, or Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) ethnic identity. However, we don’t get to this identity like we did when we became African-Americans, by merely changing our name; we can only realize the Ajise Identity by overcoming the underlying Negro identity itself in actual practice. This requires successful completion of The Second Emancipation Program (TSEP). Though we prefer today to go by the name African Americans, in spite of the best intentions, merely changing our name to African Americans is in no way sufficient to overcome the affliction of Negroism, so we’re fooling no one but ourselves.
TSEP is designed to assist the aspirant in acquiring a more effective ethnic culture for the 21st century and beyond, which is vital to overcoming the affliction of Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes). TSEP is based upon the following Ajise principles:
- It takes two emancipations to overcome the affliction of Negroism. The First Emancipation in 1865, liberated our forebears from traditional American slavery; whereas, The Second Emancipation is now required to liberate their descendants from Negroism
- Although we may have been born and raised as Negroes, we don’t have to remain that way. We can overcome this condition by rising to a higher level of awareness and performance in actual practice.
Overcoming Negroism is not only a new frontier for Black America, but it also offers a potentially new era in Black American history.
What are the benefits of Post-Negro Studies?
Post-Negro Studies focuses on Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh), or the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR), which offers tremendous benefits for Black Americans and among the most important of which is that for the first time in our history overcoming Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes) is now a viable option. Post-Negro Studies also opens up an entirely new field of study, which offers a completely different way of looking at ourselves as individuals and as a people. It also offers a completely different way of looking at our history based upon the viewpoint of the wisest of our ancestors. In Post-Negro Studies our history is known as the Unwritten Book of Life (UBL), a priceless legacy that, when viewed from the Ajise perspective, teaches us how this world really works. Another important teaching we learn in Post-Negro Studies is that the old American Negro franchise is not only completely unsustainable over time, but it also can only be a temporary phase in our history at best.
In other words, Post-Negroism challenges the entire concept of our being Negroes for it sees us first and foremost as a relatively new ethnic group struggling to find our proper place in the world in spite of traumatic historical events. Post-Negorism also challenges our being African-Americans because this term, in spite of the best intentions, is just another name for American Negro. The Negro identity is far too deep-seated and complex to be overcome by merely changing our name because we still suffer from the affliction of Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes) whether we grasp this or not. On the contrary, we must finally solve the problem of ethnicity and this can only be achieved by overcoming the Negro identity in actual practice. Such a solution can only be found in Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) or Post-Negroism.
Ajise is also known as the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR); it offers a much-needed migration path to higher cultural ground for those Black Americans so inclined; these people are also tired of the same old, same old and are willing to trade centuries of erroneous beliefs and behavior for a totally new direction.
Is Post-Negro Studies for every Black American?
Post-Negro Studies focuses on Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh), or the CORAR. Though we may all be Black Americans, we’re not all Ajise. Therefore, Post-Negro Studies isn’t for every Black American but specifically for those who have what it takes to overcome Negroism in actual practice. Post-Negro Studies is also truth-centered rather than Africa-centered; it teaches a way of life, so it’s not a movement. Moreover, it teaches us that although we may have been born and raised as Negroes, we don’t have to remain that way. We can overcome this condition by rising to a higher level of awareness and performance in actual practice.
For those with eyes to see and minds to comprehend, Post-Negro Studies teaches us that a much-needed Post-Negro era awaits. We’re only scratching the surface of our true potential.
Why a new culture?
Post-Negro Studies offers Black Americans a much needed cultural solution to the Negro Problem, and its related ills, as found in Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh), or the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR); a more effective ethnic culture for the 21st century and beyond. Such a path (the Path of the True Descendant) is badly needed today because the old American Negro franchise is completely unsustainable over time and can only be a temporary phase in our history at best. Such concepts are not so far fetched today because we’re now living in an era of universal deceit and utter contempt for the Truth. This is also a time when the problems of Black America are approaching critical mass, so they can no longer be hidden or ignored. A new culture is needed because the Culture of Shared Misery (COSM) or traditional Black American Culture is currently no match for the many complex problems confronting our people today.
The Negro identity was unjustly imposed upon our people during the slavery era so it’s not our true ethnicity but an artificial ethnic construct that was intended to better enslave us and/or keep us down. We’re now so accustomed to just accepting things as history has left them, that we’re more than willing to accept perpetual Negroism as our fate when nothing could be further from the Truth. On the contrary, our true ethnic identity was always a work in progress so Negroism or even slavery can no longer be allowed to define who we really are.
What makes Negroism such a formidable problem is that it gets worse with each succeeding generation so the longer we languish in Negroism, the greater our problems will become. Moreover, traditional Black American culture is quite vulnerable to the fluctuations of mainstream American culture which has now sank to appalling levels of depravity and error. This has triggered a corresponding decline in traditional Black American culture. Things have become so bad that we’re now facing what increasingly appears to be the terminal decay of the old American Negro franchise.