Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas, who asserted in a tearful Facebook post that a white man at a Publix grocery store told her to “Go back to where you came from!” seems to be less sure that the Friday encounter was exactly how she remembered.
After reaffirming to reporters Saturday that a white man had verbally accosted her and her daughter telling them to “go back” to where they came from in a racially charged tirade, Thomas was interrupted by the accused man himself, Eric Sparkes, who had a very different story to tell. Sparkes accused Thomas of faking the story for political purposes, saying he was, in fact, a Cuban American Democrat who was simply irritated that she brought so many groceries to the express checkout lane.
Thomas rebuked Sparkes’ version of events, however, in an interview later in the day on Saturday, saying, “I don’t know if he said ‘go back,’ or those types of words … I don’t know if he said ‘go back to your country’ or ‘go back to where you came from,’ but he was making those types of references is what I remember.”
A local journalist further asked her, “So you don’t remember exactly what he said?”
Thomas replied, “No, no, definitely not. But I know it was ‘go back’ because I know I told him to ‘go back.'”
In Thomas’ original video, the black lawmaker tearfully recounted a traumatic incident in which a man began using racially charged insults after accusing her of bringing too many groceries to the express checkout line. Thomas posted the video to her Facebook account on Friday evening.
Thomas’ story quickly gained traction in the wake of President Trump’s “go back” tweet as the media seemingly believed her version of events, and #IStandWithErica began trending on Twitter.
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Yeah, he might be a Cuban-American Democrat, but I bet he is a white Republican Cuban-American Democrat. And, sure, he might not have told her to “go back where you came from”, and instead told her to use the regular checkout line, but we all know what he was thinking.
LOL. I considered adding the sarcasm tag, but thought the comment didn’t need it. I guess it does.
What is it about huge African womminz who “represent” Georgia?
I know, I know; they be so artickulate.
Foniks worx foh they.
If we returned to the “good-old-days” of racial segregation, we would not have incidents such as this.
The old-time segregationists were right, all along…
Leftists lie. It’s the only thing they do consistently. Never believe a leftist.
Blacks doing something wrong and getting called out on it then, somehow claim they were the ones wronged (speeding and pulled over by cops for ex.). I’ve seen that BS story a million times.
Rules and laws only apply to white people. I guess it must be part of white privilege…
Read her last line according to the article, “During the television interview Saturday, she said Sparkes “needs to be held accountable because people can’t just go out and berate pregnant women.””
Black Preggers Woman
Yeah baby, garner all the victim hood status you can grab.
What’s next, you remember that you had a hangnail that day too?
How hard is it to tell when someone is telling a lie? This is like not knowing if you’re hungry or if you just heard thunder- you just know. People have been suppressing their natural instincts to simply call a spade a spade for so long now that most of them are still reacting to the cliche’ I just wrote (a spade a spade) rather than considering why they have to live in a perpetual state of self-deception 24/7. She’s not even average at it, like you’d expect from a tween. The speed of her words, the cadence, the repetition of nonsense filler (like/you know/um) is puerile and any person paying half attention can easily see it’s bullshit.
Blacks in govt. Seems to be a recurring theme here…