Bernie does have a race problem.

Support from black voters, in particular, depends upon playing the identity politics game. That’s a problem, not just for Bernie, but for all of us, particularly black people, because the result is a lot of “diversity” happening when campaigns are going on, then no effort to do anything substantive about the police and justice system. It’s this same problem that prevented President Obama from ever having that “conversation about race” he wanted. His party just didn’t care about it.