The Controversial New Book, Acknowledging the “Nigger” In Us All, Stuns the Publishing World With It’s Candor and Insight

Algiers, LA—- The controversial new book, Acknowledging the “Nigger” In Us All: New African KEYS For Moving Beyond Self Esteem and Self Hate has been released to widespread acclaim and praise. Dr, Marshall Lee has penned a roadmap and strategy for African Americans who want to overcome years of oppression and hopelessness.

“I have worked and studied for over 30 years, to try and understand the complexities of racial hatred. African Americans especially, have suffered unconscionable atrocities. We must learn to uncover the past, understand our present, and expect more of ourselves and our community in the future. I have developed 12 KEYS that will assist people in their emotional development. My goal is to empower readers to do battle both individually and collectively with the strains of living within our sexist and racist society”, said Lee.

New African KEYS offers the reader 12 interconnected KEYS developed to arm Black Americans or anyone else with tools for individual and group self improvement. Dr. Lee emphasizes that the work of individual transformation has to include work toward changing the world, but all of this “work” must be done in a playful and compassionate way. The book also provides a major critique of our current approaches to relationships based on romantic love and suggests an approach that offers the possibilities for deeper and more satisfying intimate relationships.

The book initiates a re-investigation of the history of Africans in the Americas and examines the adverse effects that this history has had on the African self. Dr. Lee exposes why the concept of the “nigger” was created and advises African Americans not to repeat the destructive mistake that White Americans made by creating some scapegoat in order to feel good about themselves. He makes the diagnosis that all humans individually and collectively have “good and “bad” qualities and potentials; and his prescription is unconditional self acceptance as the only remedy to avoid the scapegoat trap. This concept of unconditional self acceptance that Dr. Lee calls - ASHE - is a simple and ancient, yet revolutionary concept. The KEYS are offered to assist in the internalization of this concept that can also assist in the development of alternative coping mechanisms.

Dr. Michael Cunningham, Associate Professor of Psychology at Tulane University in New Orleans hails the book as a, “clarion call to all African Americans”. “New African KEYS offers concepts that will begin conversations between families, neighbors and communities.. These conversations can begin subtle changes that lead to movements and monumental societal changes”, said Cunningham.

Dr. Marshall Mkononi Lee received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He is a Yoruba Priest initiated through the Lukumi tradition of Cuba. He has worked as a Psychotherapist and/or taught at a number of universities, including the University of Michigan, City College of New York, Baruch College (CUNY), Long Island University, Rutgers University, Xavier University in New Orleans, and Tulane University. Dr. Lee was a clinician and an administrator in a large mental Health Clinic in Harlem and a staff psychologist for an outpatient clinic in a hospital in Brooklyn, NY. He had an active private practice in Harlem and Gramercy Park in New York City.

He is the author of numerous articles dealing with issues related to African American culture and psychology. He has been written about and/or published in Black Issues in Higher Education, Jet, Essence, The Crisis, and Ebony Man. Dr. Lee has also lived and taught for three years in Tanzania, East Africa. His insights and perceptiveness into the issues related to contemporary African America have developed as a result of his active involvement in politics and culture spanning the last thirty years.

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