Poynter on the Record

Anderson Cooper publishes Poynter's Keith Woods

We have no real experience at this as a nation. We know the American race story that begins in strife, oppression, struggle. We know the one that ends in marching and overcoming. We know it well. Throughout our history, we have talked about race relations only on the heels of injustice and unrest. We ruminate over our failures and measure success always as rising above the strife; the oppression; the struggle.