On Martin Luther King Jr Day, democracy is still struggling to meet the greatest American’s test

I went to see the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr, to pause and pray at the statue of the greatest American. Yes, above Lincoln or Kennedy or Roosevelt above any of the presidents; above the titans of industry or culture or science or sport. Above them all, King is the one who spoke to, and whose words continue to speak to, the broken heart of America — the promise and the lie, the dreams and the nightmares of America. He held America to account to its creed of equality; told America that the bombs it was dropping in Vietnam…