Today, we may well be at the lowest point in post-emancipation Black American history where the ever-increasing problems of Black America are approaching critical mass so they can no longer be hidden or ignored. The question we must ask ourselves at this critical juncture in Black American history is what can be done about it? Since most of what we’ve been doing to solve our problems hasn’t worked, it’s high time for a totally new direction.

To this end, the Institute for African American Thought and Philosophy (IAATP) created the field of Post-Negro Studies where new perspectives and solutions are offered for the complex array of past and present challenges confronting Black America. The second work in our current Post-Negro Studies line up is:

The Second Emancipation and the Path of the True Descendant also known as TSEP (2023)

 TSEP serves as the instruction manual for participants in IAATP’s Second Emancipation Program which, for the first time in Black American history, makes overcoming the affliction of Negroism (thinking and acting like Negroes) a viable option for those Black Americans seeking a new direction for our people. TSEP is based on the idea that it takes two emancipations to overcome the affliction of Negroism—also the most problematic legacy of U.S. slavery and racism, which gets worse, not better, with each succeeding generation. Therefore, today we find ourselves in the era of the 21^st century Negro who is also the most wayward American Negro ever. Not surprisingly, the Black Americans of today are far less competent in the important areas of life than the Black Americans of prior generations. The First Emancipation in 1865 liberated our forebears from traditional U.S. slavery, so the Second Emancipation is now required to liberate their descendents from Negroism.

TSEP isn’t a solution for every Black American but specifically for those Black Americans who have what it takes to overcome Negroism in actual practice. TSEP delves into the details of Ajise (Ah-jee-sheh) also known as the Culture of Redemption and Renewal (CORAR)—a more effective Black American Culture for the 21^st century and beyond and not a mere recreation of African traditions. TSEP is also badly needed today because the Culture of Shared Misery (COSM) or traditional Black American culture is currently no match for the complex challenges confronting our people today. Moreover, a new culture is needed because the old American Negro franchise is completely unsustainable over time; so being Negroes hasn’t really worked for us and it never will. In TSEP, you’ll learn such new concepts as:

• Ethnic Alchemy
• Ajiseism (Ah-jee-sheh-ism)
• The Compass of Life
• Right Historical Perspective and much more

The foregoing are major topics in Ajise or Post-Negroism which show the way to the much needed Post-Negro phase of Black American history. In TSEP, overcoming Negroism is made possible via a step by step learning program that can be conducted individually or in a group environment. Although we prefer to call ourselves African-Americans today, merely changing our name from Negro to African-American is in no way sufficient to overcome the affliction of Negroism because it’s so deep-seated and complex. In spite of the best intentions, the term African-American, in actual practice, is just another name for American Negro so we’re fooling no one but ourselves. Though 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 individually and collectively. Overcoming Negroism represents both a new frontier for Black America as well as a potentially new era in Black American history.