Posted on 07/22/2019 11:51:27 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Black Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas, who accused a man of racism and screaming at her to "go back to where you came from" in a heated grocery store confrontation, has doubled down on her original assertion after backtracking over the weekend. She said in a Monday morning press conference, "I'm not backtracking" on her weekend accusations.
Thomas claimed on Friday in a tearful Facebook post that a man verbally accosted her at a Publix grocery store after she brought too many items to an express checkout lane. She claimed the man told her and her 9-year-old daughter to "go back to where you came from" in a racially driven tirade. The following day, as Thomas spoke to reporters about her claim, the accused man confronted her in front of the store while the cameras were rolling.
The man, Eric Sparkes, claimed that Thomas was using him to manipulate a political stunt and that he was in no way 'racist,' as Thomas had alleged. Sparkes, an outspoken Democrat of Cuban heritage, admitted that he did confront the pregnant lawmaker in anger after she violated the store policy of bringing too many items to the express checkout lane, but never told her to "go back" to where she came from.
Later that day, Thomas appeared to backtrack on her story as she told reporters that she couldn't remember exactly what Sparkes had said to her in the confrontation.
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B. F. D.
B. F. D. = Black Fat Democrat?
she is pregnant and in final month(?)... hormones ?
So? What? Does that make her a Victim who is owed some arrests and hangings for Hate Crimes? I think we all knew that when the category of Hate Crime was added to the laws that it would rapidly become Speech Crimes. The words themselves become the crime. That concept is far advanced in Europe and we are trying to install it in full here.
I’ll see your ‘B.F.D.’ and raise you a ‘W.G.A.F.’. :-)
Democrats fighting democrats. Interesting.
Erica Thomas
@itsericathomas
At the pool
@Westin
and after the waitress ask the Caucasian people on both sides of me for their order and skipped over me minutes later the pool boy ask me for my room key. This can not be real right now. I am a guest too right. #racist
3:25 PM · Jul 13, 2018 from Savannah, GA
“go back to where you came from”
Yeah, the other check out line.
Diddin do nuffins- now, in extra large!
I have been following this story since the beginning. I am not seeing race as an issue at all.
If he did say - “go back to where you came from” in a racially driven tirade. How is that racist? He could have implied from as in to your house.
I wish this ball less democrat beta male would sue her for slander. He will win the case with no problem. Atlanta has a lot of lawyers.
Lie, lie, and then lie some more.
Go back to the regular checkout line!
Of course she heard that as "go back to where you came from"!
So what?
(My answer to any mention of racism.)
Democrat liar. She has already proven that. Why does she have to keep lying?
That is interesting. Around here the food stamp queens of all races do that. Huge stuffed full cart, food stamps, express lane.
What are things that didn’t happen for $400, Alex?
Cultural appropriation, lose the blonde hair.
Some people (or some stores) consider multiples of the same item as 1 item. So show up with 10x nine different items and you can use the express lane.
Conversely those self-checkout kiosks I have used won’t let you key in a multiple, so if you have 16 cans of tuna, 12 cans of sardines and 10 cans of dog food you have to scan 38 times.
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