From the question, it sounds like you are saying that the "I Have a Dream" speech was out of touch with social realities at the time that it was given. I suppose that you can make this argument, though I would disagree with it to a large extent.
You can say that this speech is out of touch because it emphasizes the legal segregation that was going on in the South at that time. You can argue that it ought to talk more about the economic conditions in the ghettoes of the North.
You can argue that King should have talked less about brotherhood and religious imagery and talked more about how angry black people in the North were getting.
But to me this is an unfair criticism because in 1963, the legal segregation was still there. As long as that was still there I do not think I agree that other things were the "core of racial problems." I think you have to get rid of that first and then move on to economic problems (as King did between the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his death.
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