Three days after the federal holiday celebrating his uncle, Issac Newton Farris Jr. told a crowd at Colorado State University Pueblo that democracy in the United States is “at a serious point.”
Farris’ uncle is civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurred on the same day as the inauguration of President Donald Trump — a president whose executive actions are likely to be followed by frustration and protests by members of the public, Farris said.
While emphasizing the importance of an individual’s right to protest, Farris said people must exercise that right nonviolently as his uncle did during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s…