2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: MoveOn has a perfect response to Netroots controversy: [View all]pnwmom
(108,980 posts)to talking about race, even though he hasn't been doing that much till recently.
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8671135/bernie-sanders-race
For other progressives many of them black or Latino economic inequality is important, but so is racial inequality. They're extremely concerned about racial bias in policing, and about ending mass incarceration. They're concerned about the treatment of unauthorized immigrants, and about protecting voting rights (an issue like campaign finance where progressives are worried the integrity of the political system is at stake and where the outcome doesn't look good for them).
Bernie Sanders doesn't speak to those concerns. He didn't mention those issues in his campaign launch in May. They're not on the issues page of his website. And his appearance at Netroots Nation in July left many attendees frustrated: Sanders answered questions about racial issues by pivoting back to economic ones.