Most of us only know where we have been since the system/country that still exists today had come into existence. So we are still in shackles, only those shackles are transparent and wrapped around our (most of our) minds rather than our feet and ankles. I laugh when I hear people saying "we are free" yet we all still live in the ghetto, get our asses kicked by police without being able to fight back (by law) and our community is flooded by the devils candy to keep us sick and kill us off, or for an excuse to throw us back into literaly chains and put in a prison for cheap slave labor.
The trap is set up by the white man, the Psychological conditioning that is necessary to help these traps to be more successful is set up by the white man, but it's still on us to educate our own people to wake up and not fall for these traps and to be aware of what these traps are and most importantly WHO set them up. That is what us conscious brothers and sisters are trying to do whenever we expose these devils for what they really are.
In order to be able to understand the destructive capablilities of these traps that are set up, we must first acknowledge and realize the true destructive nature of the trap setters. This whole American System was built and kick started by chattel slavery, Racism, genocide, Psychology and extermination... This system still exists, and the people in power today inherited the wealth and power that their forefather raped stole and killed for, just as much as our people inherited the poverty, lack of wealth and power, and were raised by the same people who had dogs sicked on them, were prohibited from drinking out of the same water fountains or using the same restrooms and refused good jobs by the same people that raised these current devils you see today screaming; "Slavery ended 100 years ago, get over it!"
Until this whole matrix is completely destroyed, there is no way for us to be Black NOW, or to get rid of Race altogether. The system must end first before race does. This is a white man's society, everything you see around you is white. It was not built for the black man, period. When They were taking slaves from Africa and building this nation, writing their declarations and constitutions... the last thing on their minds was "Hmmm, now how are we going to go about letting theses slaves go free?"...
Stop kidding yourself. If you want to bring down this system, stop buying Pepsi, stop stuffing your face with fast food, stop upgrading your iphones, stop buying brand name clothes to impress people that will never be satisfied with you, stop supporting jewelry, stop stop stop stop just fuckin stop funding satan's empire. End of Story.