Why is it important in these lines that king to address the counterclaim that African Americans will eventually receive equal rights

In response to the counter claim king responded that the African Americans have been waited so long to attain freedom and the abuses that they had been facing through the years

Explanation:

In these lines King particularly portrays that the blacks that is the African American society have been facing discrimination for the past 340 years and they had always been waiting for the right time of their justice

He explains the abuses that have been faced by his people over the years and even in the present day and he explains his younger daughter that she had been refused inside the amusement park only because of her skin color and this is because the black men have been pushed into the abyss of despair