When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

Instead, Mrs. Clinton repeated lines she often uses about the need to overhaul the criminal justice system. “We have to rebuild the bonds of trust between law enforcement and the community they serve,” she said. “And stop the tragedy of black men and women being killed by police or dying in custody.”

“On a scale of one to 10, I give it a 7.5,” Campbell Watson, 77, a retired bus operator in the Bronx, said of Mrs. Clinton’s speech. “It does seem like she is going to hold onto the things that Barack Obama has already established.”

Gloria Boyce-Charles, 58, a designer in Queens, said she lived near Kennedy Airport and appreciated Mrs. Clinton talking about environmental damage in black neighborhoods. “I was ecstatic when she talked about that,” she said. “Yes, we live near the airport, but we’re human beings and our lives matter.”

Jason Murray, 54, a financial adviser in New Jersey, said Mrs. Clinton didn’t receive roaring applause because she stuck to granular policy details, and not because the crowd wasn’t supportive. “It wasn’t a bunch of fluff that gets applause,” he said.

But Akua Harris, 71, a retired city employee, was not moved by Mrs. Clinton’s remarks and doubted she would feel any differently about Mr. Sanders’s speech on Thursday. “Talk is cheap,” she said. “These politicians come in and tell you what you want to hear. They all promise things to black people and don’t deliver.”

Asked whether Mr. Obama was a typical politician, Ms. Harris said he was not. “That’s different,” she said. “He wanted to get things done, and the Congress blocked him.”

The gathering was somber this year, as Mr. Sharpton and other keynote speakers bemoaned that in January a white president will be inaugurated to replace the nation's first black president. "It's going to be a real hard day for us," said Angela Rye, chief executive of the consulting firm Impact Strategies, who spoke before Mrs. Clinton.

Meanwhile, Bernie has thousands of screaming dedicated supporters,...so there's that.

They were yawning at Hillary.

Sometimes the arrogance, the assumptions, here get to me.

But, you and many are also dolts about the reality of it.

And it’s not just Bernie’s policies that Hayden is concerned with. There’s also the question of his vulnerability as a candidate. Hayden, quite correctly, points out that Republicans have almost completely ignored Bernie:

My second worry about Bernie’s candidacy is that he has not really faced an all-out Republican-financed media assault in this entire campaign. If he’s the nominee, that will be merciless.

I’ve had this discussion a number of times with Bernie supporters who think that Republican attacks will roll right off. But Republicans managed to convince a significant portion of the country that the center-left Obama is actually a far-left Socialist bordering on Communist and that Obamacare was a “government takeover.” The right-wing media machine is a propaganda tool that would make the totalitarian government in George Orwell’s 1984 weep in pure jealously. By the end of the first month, Bernie would be labeled a Marxist. By the end of the second month, he would be the reincarnation of Stalin. And that would be among the nicer things they would say about him.

Just to be crystal clear, a certain number of Bernie supporters insist that Obama is a center-right Republican. Yet it is undeniable that he’s been successfully labeled a far-left radical by the right. How would Bernie be immune to this? There’s no clear answer.

Even worse, the automatic response from Bernie supporters is “They’ll do the same thing to Hillary!” as if that would change the character assassination to come. But even that answer is unhelpful because they’ve BEEN doing this to Hillary for longer than many of Bernie’s supporters have been alive. The Clintons are the most scrutinized politicians to ever live, bar none. There are literally no new scandals to dig (or make) up. The Corporate Media has been trying to claim her scalp since the 90s and the right has spent millions upon millions on opposition research with only rumor and innuendo to show for it.

What are they going to do? Hold some more Benghazi hearings? Good luck with that.

But the main reason Hayden says he’s supporting Hillary is that the black community is overwhelmingly supporting her:

I intend to vote for Hillary Clinton in the California primary for one fundamental reason. It has to do with race. My life since 1960 has been committed to the causes of African Americans, the Chicano movement, the labor movement, and freedom struggles in Vietnam, Cuba and Latin America.

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What would cause me to turn my back on all those people who have shaped who I am? That would be a transgression on my personal code. I have been on too many freedom rides, too many marches, too many jail cells, and far too many gravesites to breach that trust.

Some of Bernie’s (overwhelmingly white) supporters have taken the not-so-subtly racist attitude that the black community doesn’t know any better. But Hayden correctly points out that Bernie himself made the choice not to appeal to them:

Bernie’s campaign has had all the money in the world to invest in inner city organizing, starting 18 months ago. He chose to invest resources instead in white-majority regions at the expense of the Deep South and urban North.

Blaming black people for not supporting Bernie when Bernie deliberately chose to focus his energy elsewhere is a deeply problematic attitude and a shirking of responsibility.

So here we are, at the end of one generation on the left and the rise of another. Both camps in the party will need each other in November—more than either side needs to emerge triumphant in the primary. We still need the organizing of a united front of equals to prevail against the Republicans. It will take a thorough process of conflict resolution to get there, not a unilateral power wielding by the usual operatives. It’s up to all of us.

People go see Jerry Seinfeld or Oprah and pay money for it because they want to, if they didn't they would pay and go. People pay money to listen to Hillary Clinton because they want to, or else they wouldn't pay and they wouldn't go.