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.
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At storify.com
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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