this entire post is beyond suspicious. their father gave an interview about his nativity set he puts up every year to channel 10 four months ago. he's lived in RI for four decades, so "immigrant" isn't an excuse here, it's not like he just got here. and he's sharp enough to be putting up an enormous nativity set a few months ago. this is bs

I have a bridge for sale if anyone is interested!

also buying the flag. he didn't walk into a shop on atwells and walk out with that.

judging by the size and location of that building i would guess that most of it is rented out, and someone in this family realized a housing discrimination claim would be ruinous.

I deleted my post because there was people making threatening comments and I do not support that shit at all, but still I find this entire post suspicious. And I’m sorry even if you are 80 years old you don’t just go hanging flags up that you know nothing about, especially when he took the American flag down to do it. And it’s easy to say he burned the flag last night especially with no evidence.

I was one of the people who said I recognized him and that he threatened myself and others when we walked by in 2020. I moved from that neighborhood 2 years ago and haven't been by that house since, but from the picture I saw posted yesterday I swear it was him. From my memory, the racist guy on Federal Hill is elderly, white, lives in a white house on Vinton St, it has a decorative cement-looking fence, usually a lot of plants and a garden area on the right side of the house, and the fire hydrant out front is painted like the Italian flag. The picture posted only showed the left side of the house with the man facing away, but I recognized the fencing. If this was a different house, then my bad. Maybe whoever posted the picture can clarify where they were.

Who hangs a flag they don't know anything about?

op went too far with that claim lmao

"yeah, pops totally burnt it in anger, but we didn't take any pics"

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I have a feeling this isn’t real because what elderly man chooses to undergo the physical labor of putting up a flag when he doesn’t even know the meaning of the flag?

And then BURNED it that same night. Like what? People are so gullible lol.

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I second you are probably talking about Brazil nuts. My very tall, barrel chested grandfather used to yell across the produce section when he saw 'oh look, X toes are on sale!' Genuinely excited, they are a yummy nut, and he also grew up calling them that. We were able to curb this, but damn that was rough for a bit.

Right? Seems strange.

It can happen. When I was a kid in Florida my friends mom bought his little preschool aged brother a t-shirt that had the flag on it along with a little cartoon and the text "mommy's little red neck"

They were Mexican. She didn't know what it meant lol.

why does anyone believe this lmfao

yeah, my octogenarian dad totally went out and accidentally bought himself the racist flag and climbed his ass up on a wall to put it up. trust me bro.

EDIT: HE SEEMED PRETTY SHARP WHEN HE TALKED TO CHANNEL 10 FOUR MONTHS AGO

Totally understand. It seems like you read the comments on the other thread, which prompted my first post here. Lots of other comments referencing hateful actions towards POC that I was shocked to read alongside others’ experiences of the sweet old guy on Federal St. If there’s any truth to that stuff that I, as a white man, cannot corroborate, this whole thing feels a bit more gray to me. If he’s a confused man who has learned something, good.

@masataqueriapvd did my homies post wedding party! They have a food truck and full catering options!

They stole my security deposit because my “kitchen needed cleaning” yet we left the apartment spotless and nothing needed to be done except repaint (which they do according to the lease) the owner of the building also got charged recently for attacking a commercial tenant of his as well

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What part of the USA Today BLM fact check don't you buy and why would it matter anyway?

What people mean when they fly a BLM flag is clear and has as much to do with your BS as people buying Christmas trees has to do with some German candle scam conspiracy theory I could drum up. (Check out the history of Xmas trees coming to the USA.) Maybe I could add in that the profits from the German candles go to a child sex traffic ring.

Here's one: We all must conclude the GOP hates gun rights with The Mulford Act as evidence.

The only problem with that one is that as BS as it is, it has much more truth than the money laundering craziness.

Your racist credulity around BLM trolling is what it is. Racist. It's also stupid.

>Was there any merit to the person that said they spoke to this guy and he was saying racist / bigoted things? There are people also claiming your father was threatening to shoot people? Is this just random people on Reddit telling lies?

I think so. Telling lies and trying to incite violence, IMO.

Edited to add: The person who made those statements has at least one post in a subreddit that "officially endorses the New Black Panther Party and the Black Hebrew Israelites".

Both of those groups have been classified as violent hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Nazi side is evil, the anti-Nazi side is good.

So the dozen or so people on the other thread claiming they know of this guy and saying he’s been super racist consistently were all full of shit or this guy is? I mean people were straight up commenting the location of the house stating this dude has been problematic for years.

Bullshit.