Here is one of Rev. Martin Luther King's most famous speeches, delivered from a pulpit the night before he was killed.
What is in "the Promised Land"? Is it a place with utterly perfect racial justice; no racial injustices ever occur at all? Was he promising that America will eventually become a land where no one ever again ever discriminates against anyone on the basis of race? A land where everyone obeys the Equal Protection Clause, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act -- obey those laws 100% Was that realistic? Was he overpromising?
