And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.-Martin Luther King, Jr Forty years ago Dr King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray. My Mom was not a fan of Martin Luther King, Jr-she would always maintain that he was nothing but a womanizer. Like President Kennedy, Dr King left life and entered mythology instantaneously. If there was anything bad about the man, it was forgiven, forgotten, or flatly denied. The man hardly matters now, it…