Clay Shirky, one of my favorite thinkers on contemporary culture, @cshirky assembled a collection of his tweets-- a tweetstorm-- on storify, exploring the idea of "kettle drum" politics to explain why Bernie Sanders has failed to gain traction with blacks. It's one of the smartest analyses I've seen.
"White liberals often have a hard time understanding why Sanders isn't getting more votes from black citizens. That's because we often can't hear what his messages are conveying."
He introduces the idea with three tweets, saying
"But many liberal whites still don't get why Sanders didn't reach black voters. His economic issues are surely theirs too--what went wrong?


read the rest of Clay Shirky's smart, nuanced analysis at his storify "story" or click through the storify interface below.

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