While the nation is consumed with utilizing its time, talent and resources to fight a war on foreign soil, the real domestic battle continues to be ignored. This warfare can be found in any urbanized area in America. It can be found in our schools, in our single parent homes and in our correctional facilities. This combat can be detected on any city corner and in our once cohesive and loving communities. This conflict can be discovered in the prison of our minds. What must happen before those most affected realize that we must take ownership of this condition? When will we make a conscious decision to help ourselves? What will it take to call to arms a people willing to fervently work to put an end to a desperate plight that has haunted the so-called underprivileged far too long? The answers to these queries and many others lie embedded in the pages of these essays. "Perspectives on the Real War: Essays of a Human Condition in Crisis" is undoubtedly one of the most riveting, profound works to grace our lives since "The Souls of Black Folk" written by W.E. B. DuBois in 1903. We must make a drastic change while it is day. For night is drawing nigh and the end of time to reclaim the lost quickly approaching. We must seriously move beyond mere planning into effective execution. The season is ripe to reconcile, restore and redirect an endangered people hidden beneath the monoliths of racial and economic division.Divisions that serve as the cornerstone of our American society.