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Ken Aslakson, professor of early-American and African American history, didn’t mince his words as he took the microphone outside the campus library. He called Trump’s immigration and border policies “nativist” and said he was “done trying to convince crazy Trump voters… because they are not to be convinced of anything.”
“What he’s doing is fulfilling a campaign promise without affecting his own business interests,” he said. “These policies are based on lies… They are dividing America through fear and race-baiting, through trying to destroy communities, but we know better.”
He said Democrats and progressives need to organize among themselves and called on Union students and faculty to look outside the campus gates to the Schenectady community writ large. He said activism should strive for four things: truth, goodness, farsightedness and community.
“I’m asking people at Union to step out of the Union bubble and be active in the community,” he said. “Schenectady is small enough that we can make a difference and big enough that that difference can be seen.”
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