I never thought of him as a black president or candidate. I thought of him as a communist and a liar. As for following all the rules to get elected, he also had ACORN and the like helping him with voter fraud.
If you want to know why it perpetuates it would be due to the people on the left. Race bating is the democrats "problem". The Republicans are the party of Martin Luther King Jr. and many other black civil rights activists of the 60's.
If you really want to get to the nitty gritty it is the left that feeds their poor black constituents entitlements to keep them down, same as drugs. It is the right that calls for self reliance. If you feel that way, it is perhaps because the left is in the forefront of our government now, making it an issue but quite frankly I just don't see it.
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.