Not for nothing, but Thomas has sort of backed off him saying she should “go back to where she came from.”
When Jennings talked to Thomas after the confrontation, she tried to clarify if Sparkes really told Thomas to “go back where you came from.”
“I don’t want to say he said, ‘Go back to your country,’ or ‘Go back to where you came from,’” Thomas said. “But he was making those types of references is what I remember.”
On Saturday afternoon, Channel 2’s Christian Jennings went to interview Thomas about the incident. While she was there, the man Thomas accused of verbally attacking her, Eric Sparkes, also showed up outside the Publix.
Thomas and Sparkes got into a second heated conversation as news cameras rolled.
Sparkes claims he never said anything racist, although he did admit to cursing at Thomas for having too many items in the express checkout lane.
*“I’m a liar about what?” Thomas asked Sparkes. *
“Everything that happened,” Sparkes said. “Me telling you to 'Go back where you came from. Did I say that? Is it on video?”
**Are you serious? What did you say to me then," Thomas asked. *
“I called you a lazy (expletive),” Sparkes said to Thomas. “That’s the worst thing I said.”
“Yeah, that makes you look better to say that,” Thomas said.
He’s certainly a jerk, but she better hope the surveillance footage backs up her claim. The last thing anyone needs is false claims of things like this. If people come up with the ability to say it’s all lies, then the actual impact of the original chants loses potency.