What does Bernie actually think?

How Hillary Clinton will go after Bernie Sanders on race

Does Bernie think most of the hoopla about race these days is bullshit, which it is?

Maybe; maybe not.

Does he think the biggest race problem in America is endless black rancor, which it is?

No evidence for that.

All the same, he clearly does not want to be part of the race-baiting faction of the left.

Is Hillary really all that different from him, though, in any of these or any other relevant respect?

In the campaign of 2008 it was accounted racism by some and a gaffe by most when she endorsed the view that white judges and liberal pols, foremost among them the Warren court and LBJ, played an indispensable role in the civil rights revolution of the 60s.

For a while, back then, it was touch and go, you may recall, whether it would be accounted racist among Democrats to observe that black people did not end slavery all by themselves, white voters, Lincoln, and the Union Army having done their part.

Does her campaign really want to get into a competition about which white Democratic politicians are the most racially "sensitive," "aware," and PC?

And if she does is it all just going to be about talk or will it have some substance?

Does Hillary plan to follow Obama and advocate money-spending programs aimed specifically and exclusively, or at any rate mostly, at benefiting black people in some way, with that object frankly in mind?

Programs that make it abundantly clear the infamous liberal disparate impact test only forbids what advantages whites or disadvantages blacks, intentionally or inadvertently, but not vice versa?

Will she follow O's and Holder's example and condemn the entire American law enforcement system, proposing some good things but also some reforms that do little but require black crime and black criminals be given special, soft treatment?

We have seen Republicans driven so far to the right on race and other issues in their primaries that they can't undo the damage in the generals.

Are we going to see Democrats driven so far left on race - and maybe elsewhere - in the primaries they will not be able to undo the damage in the generals?