Aung Zaw’s day started well before dawn.

He arrived at 4:45 a.m. Thursday for his shift as a maintenance worker at the Community and Saranac buildings on West Main Street. He started in the Saranac Commons, and headed down to the Community Building at about 6:40, he said.

He found the glass front doors plastered with hateful, racist fliers.

“Tired of non-white aggression?” one of the fliers said. Others included hateful Jewish caricatures and an image of Trump with a broom, sweeping out Obamacare and open borders.

Then there was this: “Refugees NOT Welcome.”

Zaw – a 37-year-old Burmese refugee who says he feels quite welcome here – knew just what to do. He took the fliers down, crumpled them up and threw them in the garbage where they belong. Others retrieved them later to report to the police and rally community opposition.

Did it bother him? Make him angry or upset?

Zaw waved his hand dismissively. More here.

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