Being the child of a alumni or a very rich or powerful parent, an athlete, or even growing up on a farm improves your chances of being admitted more than being Black. Life is not fair and never has been, so why all the outrage when a Black person gets the breaks while ignoring the effects of the other privileged categories.
Asians are a victim of their own success At first is was any one of color anyone non white and the universities filled up with Asians so they had to omit the Asians.
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.