The average American is regularly reassured that this economic recovery is a validation that 2008 has been overcome. But for whom is this expansion really a benefit? The answer is not hard to confirm.

Dick Gregory carried the weight of being a black man in a country still emerging from the mire of Jim Crow, and the racism he experienced in his everyday life first drove his comedy and then his commitment to fighting racial oppression.

The Council’s threat to overturn the expressed will of the voters rises to more than policy disagreement: it is nothing less than contempt for the voters who put them in office.