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Liar, Liar: Georgia House Minority Leader Caught In A Hate Hoax

Beth Baumann

Posted: Jul 21, 2019 1:30 PM

Georgia State Rep. and Minority Leader Erica Thomas (D) took to Twitter on Saturday, saying a white man called her "a lazy SOB" and that she needed to go back to where she came from because she had too many items in the express lane at the local Publix. 

Today I was verbally assaulted in the grocery store by a white man who told me I was a lazy SOB and to go back to where I came from bc I had to many items in the express lane. My husband wasn’t there to defend me because he is on Active Duty serving the country I came from USA!

— Erica Thomas (@itsericathomas) July 20, 2019

Thomas explained her experiences further in a Facebook live video.

"People are getting really out of control with this white privilege stuff," a crying Thomas said in the video. "I'm at the grocery store and I'm in the 10 aisle, the aisle that says '10 items or less.' Yes, I have 15 items but I'm nine months pregnant and I can't stand up for long."

"This white man comes up to me and says, 'You lazy son of b**ch. You need to go back where you came from. And I said, 'Sir, you don't even know me. I'm not lazy. I'm nine months pregnant. He says, 'You're ignorant,'" Thomas explained. 

To make things even more interesting, the man Thomas accused of making the comments, Eric Sparkes, showed up at her press conference to challenge her story.

Media machine has been blowing up story of @itsericathomas, who claims a racist white man told her to “go back where you came from.” Well, he returns during her presser to deny allegation. He says he’s a Democrat & she’s embellishing story for attention. pic.twitter.com/wh4uds2IKC

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2019

"I walked into Publix, I bought my three items. There were three checkout lanes. One was express, the other two were empty. I kept my tongue shut. I went to pay for my items in one of the empty lanes. This lady, I noticed, had about 20 items on the conveyer," Sparkes explained. "I walked up to the two customer service associates from Publix, asked them what can be done in a nice manner and they said corporate policy [says] we cant do anything but you as a customer can say something."

Sparkes said he stepped outside the store, thought about what took place, walked back in and confronted Thomas. 

"I said, 'Ma'am, not to be rude,' my exact first words, point at the sign, which shows it in the surveillance camera, which I've seen already, point at the sign, '10 items or less.' She berates me after that. I don't remember exactly what she said, but on camera, she approached me, came towards me as I took a couple steps back. I said, 'You're selfish.' She mentioned she was nine months pregnant and I told it didn't matter in this case. It has no point on this case. There's two empty lines. You don't need to be in the express line."

According to Sparkes, the two exchanged words, at which point he said, "You're a selfish little b**ch." He said after he made the comment he walked out of the grocery store.

"Her words stating on Twitter and her Facebook video saying I told she needs to go back to where she came from are untrue," he said. "I'm Cuban. I'm not white."

Eric Sparkes absolutely denies claim that he told politician @itsericathomas to “go back where you came from.” He says the argument started over her using the express lane while having too many items. pic.twitter.com/ZikyJc81vf

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2019

But here's where things get even more interesting. Sparkes said he's a Democrat and the only reason Thomas is doing this is for political gains.

"This woman is playing the victim for political purposes because she is a state legislator," Sparkes said. "I'm a Democrat and will vote Democrat for the rest of my life, so call me whatever you want to believe. For her political purposes, make it black, white, brown or whatever. It is so untrue."

Recent Facebook posts show Sparkes is anti-Trump Democrat.

July 22, 2019

Georgia House minority leader picked on wrong victim when fabricating a 'send her back' race incident

By Thomas Lifson

Democrats are so besotted with what they see as an opportunity in the Trump rally crowd chanting "send her back" that they are inventing fictitious incidents in order to keep the theme in the news and attach heinous racism to Republicans.  That appears to be what happened at an Atlanta-area Publix supermarket Friday, when Erica Thomas, the state representative who is minority leader of the Georgia House, was caught with a large number of items in the "ten items or fewer" checkout line and asked to move by a patron in line behind her, evidently impatient at the violation of the rules.  

Thomas tweeted…

Today I was verbally assaulted in the grocery store by a white man who told me I was a lazy SOB and to go back to where I came from bc I had to many items in the express lane. My husband wasn’t there to defend me because he is on Active Duty serving the country I came from USA!

— Erica Thomas (@itsericathomas) July 20, 2019

...and posted a very long video to Facebook (watch it here) that ticked all the boxes, literally weeping as she claimed that she was told to go back where she came from, and (naturally) denouncing the climate of hate and white privilege, and endorsing Ilhan Omar.

She then called a press conference on Saturday.

Oops!  The patsy she fingered showed up.


Thomas accuses Sparkes to his face.
(Twitter video screen grab.)

The man she accused of uttering these politically convenient words was no evil Trump-loving Republican.  Eric Sparkes is a proud lifelong Democrat and Trump-hater, with a history of social media posts to prove it.

But he didn't appreciate being lied about (and like me, he hates it when people abuse the express checkout line).

You can watch the entire debacle that resulted — all 14 minutes of it — below.  But Andy Ngo excerpted the best parts of the confrontation in two tweets:

Media machine has been blowing up story of @itsericathomas, who claims a racist white man told her to “go back where you came from.” Well, he returns during her presser to deny allegation. He says he’s a Democrat & she’s embellishing story for attention. pic.twitter.com/wh4uds2IKC

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2019

Eric Sparkes absolutely denies claim that he told politician @itsericathomas to “go back where you came from.” He says the argument started over her using the express lane while having too many items. pic.twitter.com/ZikyJc81vf

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2019

Of course, this will be taken as a "he said/she said" incident, but I think the circumstances favor the Sparkes version, since he had no political motive to lie, while Thomas clearly did.  And he cited the surveillance camera, whose video has not (yet) been released to the public.

Hate crime hoaxes may be more numerous than actual hate crimes.  So, too, with racial incidents that don't rise to the level of crimes.  There is so much advantage in claiming victimhood that a moral hazard exists.

My guess is that none of Representative Thomas's supporters will believe Sparkes.  If he wishes to press the case, he can sue her for defamation and gain access to the surveillance footage.  If he were a Republican, he might do so.  But will a Democrat-until-he-dies sort of fellow press the case?  Let's hope he does.  Southerners place a high value on honor, after all.

Hat tip: Roger Luchs.


July 22, 2019

Showdown at the supermarket check-out line corral

By Amalric de Droevig

Last weekend, Erica Thomas, a black Democratic state representative and House minority leader from Georgia, accused a supposedly racist white man named Eric Sparkes (who is in fact a Democrat himself and a marginally white Cuban-American) of telling her to "go back where [she] came from."  Thomas and her allies in the press have transformed this nothingburger of an event into a national story.  Thomas was in the express checkout lane at a grocery store when the dispute began, apparently over the number of items she was attempting to check out.  We cannot say for certain who the real aggressor was, but we do know that Thomas apparently has some difficulty counting to ten.

Whether this gentleman actually said what she claims he said after the two got into it is not really important.  (He denies it, by the way, and she is already starting to backtrack and equivocate on some of her most extravagant allegations.)  When people get into heated exchanges, rude and crude things are sometimes said.  Supermarket disputes are not worthy of national attention, unless there is an ulterior motive for giving them such attention.  And there is.  The lying press uses these insignificant events as a stealthy and fundamentally totalitarian way to dominate and control the white population.  There is simply no other reason to turn trivial occurrences like this into national stories.

According to some reports, the police are even investigating the incident.  But what exactly are they investigating?  What is there to investigate?  Is it a crime in America now for a white man to talk back to a black woman?  I mean, what crime could possibly have been committed here?  Are microaggressions hate crimes now?  Does political incorrectness now constitute blasphemy against the state religion of diversity?

This kind of oppressive monitoring from local cops and local reporters and federal civil rights agencies has whites constantly asking themselves: am I doing something racist, am I saying something racist, am I thinking something racist?  To the extent those questions are arising from conscience and personal morality, nobody could possibly call that conscience or morality freely adopted at this point.  Whites have been browbeaten, coerced, and brainwashed from birth to adopt this vile anti-racist moral system.  It is about as freely adopted as burqa-wearing in Afghanistan.

Nevertheless, for the most part, this is not where these questions are springing from.  A great many intelligent whites have caught on to what is being done to them.  Thus, the source of these questions and concerns is primarily external, not internal.  White people are absolutely terrified of the severe real-world consequences of engaging in even the most remotely racist behavior.  This is not the conduct or condition of a free people — constantly wondering, fearing, and fretting about if you're going to be slandered and shamed nationally for offending the fragile sensibilities of a member of some eternally innocent victim class while out running errands.  This is no way for any people to live.  Until whites completely immunize themselves materially and psychologically from charges of racism and like charges emanating from their racial and political enemies (sexism, transphobia), they will never be free.  Their civilization will continue to decline.  Their economic prospects will continue to suffer.  Opiates and suicide will continue to seem preferable to their everyday existence.

Policing supermarket disputes for implicitly racist attitudes is evil.  It is Sovietesque.  It is calculated and totalitarian and intolerable.  And yet this kind of madness has been going on for decades.  It is how the Cultural Marxists shame and control and terrorize the white American population.  This is their bread and butter.

On Twitter the other day, Robin Enochs asked rhetorically, "Is accusing half the country of racism really going to be the 2020 Democratic strategy?"  But isn't the answer to that rhetorical question obvious?  Of course it is!  That's all they have.  That's all they've ever had.  What's more, that strategy has been tremendously, indeed almost miraculously, effective.  I mean, these folks turned what was arguably the happiest, most successful nation in the history of the world into some sort of semi-Marxist, second-world, pervasively corrupt, dystopian snake pit in roughly half a century's time.  That racism charge has been their go-to tactic every step of the way.  Anti-racism is a blight eating away at everything decent and wholesome in this country.  And it has eaten through almost everything at this point.  Ours is a fundamentally transformed nation, make no mistake about it.

What's more, the political Left has successfully combined its never-ending charges of racism against whites with legal force and media shaming and corporate blacklisting and word-policing and diversity-worship and pseudo-intellectual racist propaganda about white privilege and white fragility and Hollywood disinformation about the uniquely wicked nature of white history and every other form of Pavlovian conditioning imaginable. Whites have become to accusations of racism what Punxsutawney Phil is to his own shadow. It is painful to watch.

White people are so afraid to take their own side, to stand up for themselves, to band together, to prefer their own, to acknowledge the harsh reality of racial differences when it comes to intelligence and crime and everything else, that it's just downright pathetic. While every other group advances their own interests, whites fall all over themselves to advance the interests of every other group. It is borderline pathological. I think most white people would rather be dead and buried than called racist. The road to serfdom was paved with anti-racist intentions here in America. And there is no way to characterize the current state of white America's psyche other than as colonized, vassalized, tyrannized.

Donald Trump seems to think that Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hate America, but he could not be more wrong. They are actually quite fond of America, and its current incarnation. What they truly hate is Donald Trump and the folks they believe he speaks for. They resent the fact that there is still some resistance out there in the heartland to their totalitarian leftist agenda. It infuriates them that there are pockets of the former America, a whiter America, a more Christian America, a more traditional America, a more decent America, that still survive. It is that former America they truly hate and wish to snuff out at last.

Thanks to Edward Snowden we know there is a decent chance we are being watched at any given moment here in America, or listened to, or monitored, or whatever, but one can't help but think these occasional, widely publicized, racially charged incidents are sort of there to remind us. It is the power structure's way of saying, "Hey whitey, we're watching you. You're not a racist are you?" Land of the free? My white ass. This is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned.