Question

1. Why did King say that the country has defaulted on its promise to African Americans?

2. How might a desolate person might feel?
3. Why does King not want the creative protests to degenerate?
4. How does the freedom of white and black Americans might be inextricably bound?
5. In what way unjust suffering might be redemptive?

Answer 1

1

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

2

When a person feels desolate, he feels deserted, lonely, hopeless, and sad. When a location is desolate, there's almost nothing there.

5

Because "unearned suffering is redemptive." Both the release of God's people from slavery and the story of enduring life over death are powerful signs of how God does redeem suffering, sorrow, and sadness.