It has been a whirlwind week for Frederick Richard, the 20-year-old Olympian from Stoughton, Mass. who led the US men’s gymnastics team to its first team bronze in many years during the Paris games last summer.

On Sunday, his hometown gave him a hero’s welcome and the key to the town. Later that evening, Fred joined his fellow Team USA gymnasts in a two-and-a-half-hour exhibition in front of a raucous, sold-out crowd at TD Garden. He was upstaged only by the sport’s biggest name in a generation, the gold medalist Simone Biles, who got the Taylor Swift treatment from the Garden faithful.

But Frederick, or “Flips” as he’s known to his nearly 700,000 Instagram followers, also drew a huge response from the Boston crowd, a gathering that included dozens of friends and family who cheered from above in the Garden’s premium suites.

His dad Carl, his mom Marie, and his three siblings were among those cheering the loudest. Carl and Marie had organized a party bus from Stoughton to Causeway Street to celebrate their son’s achievements, which just keep stacking up.

Already the youngest American male to win an individual medal in the world championships, he finished second in the US national championship earlier in the year. Last week, Time Magazine added him to their Time 100 Next list— a who’s who listing of up-and-coming celebrities, athletes and “phenoms” to watch.

In addition to his prowess in the gym, Fred has become an ambassador of the men’s sport with a stream of videos and behind-the-scene posts that seeks to popularize the sport and that is quickly making him a sought-after endorser of everything from Crocs to Peletons.

Also worth noting about this All-American success story is that it has its beginnings – through Frederick Richard’s immigrant parents – in Haiti and the Republic of Dominica. Carl and Marie met in Boston after each had left their respective homelands in the 1970s as children.

Carl lived in Boston’s neighborhoods, including Dorchester, as he built his contracting business. Marie, who works at Pfizer, did the same as the couple established themselves and raised their four children, one of them this remarkable young man, who is also a student-athlete at the University of Michigan.

All of this flies in the face of the unhinged Trumpist assault targeting immigrants from the Caribbean – particularly Haiti – that include the family of perhaps the hardest-working and most dynamic young athlete in the nation at the moment, a formidable man and athlete who has catapulted his nation – the USA – into the elite ranks of his sport.

In the Garden on Monday, few people knew or cared that this phenomenal talent has roots in a place that Republicans routinely smear and that he rises from stock that bigots among us portray as a scourge.

Frederick Richard – and his amazing parents and family – underscore just how depraved and wrong-headed that narrative truly is. Our nation is strong and great because of families like the Richards, not in spite of them.

Hurray for Team USA and Frederick “Flips” Richard. They make us very proud to be Americans.