Erica Thomas, the District 39 state representative of Georgia, said that she was “verbally attacked” and told to “go back where you came from.”
This white man comes up and says, ‘You lazy son of a bitch, you need to go back where you came from. — Erica Thomas
Well, the truth is that she wasn’t attacked. She took a real incident, and then embellished it. Then she sprinkled a heaping helping of racial hoax on top of it all and served it to a hungry media ready to believe the lies because, if nothing else, they fit into a preconceived narrative that Donald Trump is inspiring racism across the country with his go back to where you came from line. There’s just a little problem.
The man she accused never said go back to where you came from. Oh he called her a bitch, but that was at the end of a confrontation about the fact that she chose to get in line in the 10 items or less with 15–20 items when there were two other lines that were completely open and empty.
So, these were her own words. There’s just a few problems however.
- She claims white privilege, but Eric Sparkes isn’t white. He’s Cuban.
- She says because she’s nine months pregnant that she can’t stand up for long, but she got no trouble standing for a long period of time giving a press interview the next day. Also, there were two empty open lines for people with more than ten items. She just didn’t want to use them.
- She says he tells her that she needs to go back where she came from. This never occurred.
- She says her daughter was wanting to buy 5 of the items herself. Apparently the daughter changed her mind because by all accounts I’ve found Erica Thomas made the entire purchase. Considering the lies so far it’s dubious that her daughter was making any purchases.
- She later changes her story and throws out that he called her a piece of shit, but that was never mentioned in her initial telling of the incident. Only later in the video does she toss it out there.
- She initially says she had 15 items, then later it is twenty. Not a big deal, but it’s just further evidence that she can’t keep her fake story straight.
- She said the Publix lady had to ask him to leave. There’s no account of that happening.
- She says nobody stepped in until after Eric Sparkes left the grocery store, but earlier she said that a Publix employee intervened and asked Eric Sparkes to leave.
- She says the hatred is being incited by our president. This implies the problem she experienced is partially inflamed by Trump and his supporters. Eric Sparkes is a democrat.
So that was her story.
Unfortunately Eric Sparkes shows up and confronts her during her interview with the press. Everyone has their version of the truth, but the truth is usually somewhere in between the two versions. In this case it seems Eric Sparkes and the truth are fairly close. Meanwhile Erica Thomas gave some made up fantasy that’s off in left field somewhere picking it’s nose.
She tried to imply he was part of the racist Trump followers in her video, but he’s a democrat that plans on voting democrat for the rest of his life.
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