If you going to avoid Rhode Island -- let it be for a more intelligent reason than racism.
Maybe you just aren't able to follow along. Let's review, shall we?
Someone (to be honest, I can't remember who) wanted to know about the pit known as Rhode Island.
I, knowing a great deal about said pit, chimed in to call it what it is. In doing so, I used the word mafia, which you took to be a synonym for Sicilian. Who is the racist again? And try to keep in mind that my late grandfather was Sicilian.
Now, anyone - that pays attention to world events - has known for many, many years now, that the mafia is filled with people of many ethnicities/nationalities/etc. Who is the racist again?
Since the governments of both Rhode Island and the People's Communewealth of Massachewsh*ts are as left-wing as one can find in this country (that's the commie-pinko part), and both governments are awash in political scandals involving
direct ties* to organized crime AKA "The Mafia", although not necessarily La Cosa Nostra per se (that would be the mafia part) and compared to 30 or so other states where gun laws don't even
begin to suck as much as RI and MA's do, that would be the hellhole part.
But as I said, as a slave of your illiberal illogic, the best you will ever be able to come back with as a counter-argument is "racist" or feeling insulted, or some other drivel. You can't even figure out that in one post you accuse me of castigating the mafia, and by your warped thinking Italians (Sicilians in specific). And just a moment later you accuse me of "clearly embrace(ing) the mob"; for saying that I feel love for my family members who were (unfortunately) mafia members. BTW, one of the main tenents of Christianity is to love the sinner i.e. my (thankfully few) family members who were involved with the mob, vs. hating the sin i.e. being Mafiosi.
So do me a favor would you? Demonstrate some intelligence
before questioning the intellect of others.
*Whitey Bulger's brother is the former MA state Senate president, and is the current president of the University of MA. Providence Rhode Island is ground zero of the infamous Patriarca crime family. I'll let you do the math.
One last little clue. Try naming the crime family that runs the show in Wyoming, or Montana, or Idaho, or ...