We can fight vote suppression, Russian electoral interference & institutional bigotry...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Candidates who focus on those issues probably won't survive the primaries.

If that's a candidate's strong message, then other messages won't be as strong. People have limited time to talk and the media provides sound bites for short attention spans.

If an opposing candidate argues for reparations and other racial issues with more passion in comparison (or they're simply PERCEIVED that way), that candidate will likely have more success in the Democratic primaries because African Americans are a bigger percentage of the party than the general population.

http://fusion.net/story/323539/how-bernie-sanders-lost-black-voters/

But Sanders seldom trained that same impassioned rhetoric on the problems that so many black voters wanted addressed: police brutality, white supremacy, and the ways in which economic inequality is inextricable from race.

It may have been white privilege, or simple cultural ignorance of black people and our plights. The Vermont senator, who built a movement on lofty promises like universal health care and free college, dismissed reparations for black people as “very divisive.”

He appeared not to realize that you can’t simply deliver the same speech on economic inequality to a room full of black people in Atlanta that you would to a room full of white people in Iowa.

Just look at the chasm between African Americans and whites regarding reparations. Opinions about gun control aren't nearly as different.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/06/02/reparations/