The African American Wisdom Library combines IAATP’s philosophical and Post-Negro Studies offerings to give Black Americans a well-balanced resource providing the knowledge and skills needed to better understand the traditional and present-day array of challenges that confront us as Black Americans. These challenges largely result from our conversion into Negroes under the brutal restrictions of U.S. slavery and racism. The African American Wisdom Library follows:

 

1. The Alchemy of Black Liberation and The Post-Negro World View (2022)
2. The Second Emancipation and the Path of the True Descendant (2023)
3. The Great Correction Rethinking our View of the World and Mankind (2015)

 

The Alchemy of Black Liberation (TABL) introduces Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh), or Post-Negroism as a more effective Black American culture for the 21^st century and beyond. This culture is also known as the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR). This book is also known as TABL (Table) and is the pre-requisite to TSEP.

New Perspectives and Solutions

Since much of what we’ve been taught about the Black Experience in the U.S. is wrong and much that we’ve been doing to solve our problems hasn’t worked, the African American Wisdom Library assists us in unraveling this great conundrum known as the Negro Problem and its related ills; it also offers new perspectives and solutions for these problems that can’t be found anywhere else.  IAATP is your resource for authentic African American philosophy and Post-Negro Studies.

 

What is Ajise, or Post-Negroism?

In Post-Negro Studies, Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) is a Yoruba derived word that means “one who awakens and achieves.” It’s also the name of a more effective Black American culture for the 21^st 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 21^st century Negro is also the most wayward American Negro ever.

TABL, the first book in IAATP’s Post-Negro Studies line up, 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 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, 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?

Among the vital resources found in Post-Negro Studies are Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) or the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR) and The Second Emancipation Program (TSEP), which makes overcoming Negroism possible in this particular day and age. In TSEP, we learn that the Negro identity is merely an artificial ethnic construct of slavery and not our true identity. We became Negroes, however, 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. This identity is based upon the merging of our ancestral African tribes into a new ethnic group during the time of captivity or American slavery.

The Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) Identity is also tied to an historical mandate, bequeathed from our wisest ancestors, to overcome Negroism in our time just as our forebears endured slavery in their time. Ajise, therefore, gives a higher meaning and purpose to our lives. Thus, the true purpose of the entire Black Experience in America is the realization of our true, Post-Negro or Ajise ethnic identity. The tides of history have now overtaken us so it’s no longer sufficient to just see ourselves as Black Americans; we will either all go down with the now badly listing ship of Negroism or at least some of us will choose to go forward in history, beyond Negroism, via the path of redemption and renewal manifested in our Ajise or Post-Negro ethnic identity. Overcoming Negroism is not only a new frontier for Black America but it also offers a potentially new era in Black American history.

 

 Why a new culture?

Ajise offers Black Americans a much needed cultural solution to the Negro Problem, and its related ills, as found in the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR), a more effective ethnic culture for the 21^st 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 for every Black American because many of us are perfectly okay with remaining just as history has left us, come what may; however, we’re now living in 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 many of us are more than willing to accept perpetual Negroism as our fate, which is absolutely unnecessary. 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.

 

Negroism Gets Worse

What makes Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes) 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, the Culture of Shared Misery (COSM) or 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 degeneration 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.

Among the most important questions now facing us as a people, whether we realize this or not, is:

Are we going to just sit back and succumb to rampant cultural degeneration, or is it far better to do something about this massive problem?

 

Group Change Must First Take Place Within the Individual

It is naturally better to help ourselves in any way that we can and such help can be found in Ajise, or Post Negroism. It offers a more effective ethnic culture for the 21^st century and beyond as well as a potentially new era in Black American history. Though overcoming Negroism is difficult, it indeed can be done as long as we know how to do it. The African American Wisdom Library shows the way, as it was written for those among us with eyes to see and minds to comprehend; only such individuals have what it takes to succeed in the difficult work of overcoming centuries of Negroism in actual practice because any desired group change must first take place within the individual.