Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas, who asserted in a tearful Facebook postthat 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."
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9 comments:
Or maybe he said go through the normal checkout for quantity she had. Typical race baiter; people like this denigrate the word racist.
Yet another Dem, another lie. Diogenes would run out of lamp oil before he found an honest Dem.
All elected officials should be required to wear body cams in public places to bear legal witness to their faulty and selective memories.
as if we don't have enough problems in this country, we need to manufacture more for the sake of partisan politics. lets see if her constituents have a long enough memory to remember her dishonesty during the next election cycle...
im surprised she didn't claim that the guy shouted, "This is MAGA country!"
Rules are for the Little People. As an elected representative she apparently feels all others should step aside. And it's kinda scary that she can't count how many items are in her basket and gets to weigh in on the state level budget!
She is in the express lane with more than the amount posted. Wrong thing to do, right? The man calls her on it, so to avoid embarrassment she lies about what he said. 2nd wrong thing to do, right? But she is the victim.
Juicy Junior sounds like to me...
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