The war has been on since before we were brought over here. This is nothing new. Yall gotta realize that the main tactic of systemic oppression starts with gaining control of the MIND of the group that you wish to oppress:
Like Dr. Boyce Watkins said: "alot of black people are unaware that the cage we"re in EVEN EXISTS". That is by design. The truth is in the past and white people have done an amazing job of hiding, suppressing and even manipulating past history. They know that if black people "woke up" on a mass scale, gained a knowledge of self and united, that it would be a wrap for white supremacy.
The game changer now is social media. Social media is spreading knowledge of past history and awareness amongst society at a rate never seen before. We are waking up to the atrocities that our ancestors went through. We are waking up to the evil of the white man. We are waking up to WHY things are the way they are today.
We are definantly in a shift of conciousness when it comes to race. We are slowly waking up. Its gonna take time, but i think the time we're in NOW (I would say starting around the Trayvon incident) is gonna be looked upon as the spark that ignited the flame.