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 There is a certain sense in the minds of millions in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election, that we have reached the promised land.    The imagery and oratory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is invoked, to suggest that his Dream, as articulated in his epic "I Have a Dream" speech, has been realized.    There is a deep sense that freedom is here, as we all live in a 'post-racial America'.    Or do we?    To be sure, we are all on the brink of history, for this has never happened before.    But there was a time, quite a while ago, when similar feelings swept the nation, and especially Black hearts, that a new day was breaking, and the old ways had fallen away, when freedom was as real as rain.    I speak of the Reconstruction era, when the nation formally extended civil rights to millions of Black men (not to women, notably) and scores of  Black people took office in state and federal  legislatures, beginning a wave of progressive legislation to better the abominable living conditions of mill