Many of these whites are simply ignorant if not outright hypocrites. Many of them have little to do with "straight-laced" blacks, socially (i.e. Blacks who are educated or are getting educated, and who have clean records).
They don't associate with blacks who are approachable or who approach them for friendship. They won't date blacks who they might even be attracted to, simply because they are black or are not white. They do nothing to help network blacks they might know into good employment.
But when black scofflaws or criminal thugs get killed by police under questionable (and sometimes "clean") circumstances, they feign concern in order to "prove" to others (and to themselves) that they're not bigots or racists - even though they are indeed at least passive bigots. The worst part about the hypocrisy is that they're trying to help the worst of blacks have incrementally more power by causing the police (they hope) to think twice about pursuing or subduing a black suspect who's obviously done something egregious. This is what some call soft bigotry or soft racism.
It's when certain whites will feign concern but are actually making things worse for law-abiding blacks, because not only aren't they sincere, they're just plain wrong! If and when the black thugs and scofflaws DO get incremental power, law-abiding blacks are the ones who lose, because they (the law-abiding blacks) are the ones the criminals victimize most.
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.