Black people...are we still color struck?

You make a fantastic point. The people calling you dumb or racist need to take a long look into a mirror. I say that as a self-identifying white person with creole ancestry.

The reason is that we have a long-standing racial dichotomy in this country (white-black) that society has a tendency to tacitly reify, or in other words give credence to the "color line" when in fact such a line does not exist. There are several ways to justify this which I'm not interested in assessing (white people pushing "one droppers" away, black people "claiming" mixed stars as their own, society in general designating people into certain cultural places, etc). The bottom line is that people are not educated enough.

Almost every black person and white person who can trace their american family history back to at least the civil war is "part" something else. Genetically speaking study after study has shown that those identifying as African-Americans are on average 30% admixed, and those identifying as white also admixed into the double digits. We need more education of race, we need ancestral testing, we need kids to get on ancestry.com and see how things are not so black and white.

It's called hypodescent. It is a real thing, it happens in many cultures including American. Here is what Wikipedia says: "In societies that regard some races of people as dominant or superior and others as subordinate or inferior, hypodescent is the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union or mating between members of different socioeconomic groups or ethnic groups to the minority group.

The opposite practice is hyperdescent, in which children are assigned to the race that is considered dominant or superior.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.