Over the weekend, Georgia Democratic State Rep. Erica Thomas posted a video to social media accusing a “white man” of telling her to “go back” to where she “came from” for being in an express checkout lane with more items than she was allowed.
“People are getting really out of control with this — with this white privilege stuff,” Thomas says in the video, sobbing uncontrollably. “I’m at the grocery store … and this white man comes up to me and says, ‘You lazy son of a b****, you need to go back where you came from.[‘] … And it hurt me so bad. … All I could tell him was please leave me alone. And my child was just sitting there, and she said, ‘Mama, why would he call you that, why would he do that?’ I can’t even explain to her why he had so much hate in his heart.”
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