Editorial: Martin Luther King's Promised Land may be closer than we think
What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. make of this tumultuous past year? On the evening before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., he told hundreds gathered in a church, in words that would become among his most famous, that he had been to the mountaintop and seen a better world to come. And though he might not get there with them, he pledged that “we as a people will get to the Promised Land.” Some 53 years later, that destination remains elusive. There was no promised land for George Floyd as he lay begging for his life under the knee of the police officer who killed him. Nor w...
Source: latimes.com