Oh shut up. I mean it, I get your point, but if “I” had been in express lane I know I would’ve told him to shut up.
Have ‘you’ any understanding of how swole up and uncomfortable she must’ve been? The entire east coast is under a HOT WEATHER advisory.
I surely hope somebody doesn’t ever catch YOU with 13-items in the 12-item max line.
Her child will remember this for the REST OF HIS LIFE.
That guy who yelled at the lady ought to try being 9 months pregnant, standing in a checkout line with a dim bulb yelling at him to “go back where he came from”.
Just sayin’
He should be charged with assault and the manager fired for not doing anything.
Doctors offer it a little too easily and esp. after surgery, and while I’m not immune to feeling post-op pain, it’s not so debilitating that it can’t be managed without a heavy duty drug.
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.
I find the coupon queen maddeningly.
There’s always some coupon that doesn’t scan that she commences to quibble about & reqires store manager to resolve.
Incredible!
It always astonishes me how black people are invisible at point of purchase yet clearly targeted & harassed once beyond the point of purchase & out the door. Completely unseen at register!,
It’s like there is a force field entered & all color is suspended until they move out of payment area
Then they magically reappear as black thieves with unpaid merchandise…
This manager is the worse she follows, harasses & calls the police yet claims to be intimidated when called stupid.
There isnt a place in Hell good enough for her.
Both. Incidents have escalated. Smartphones enable greater awareness as national media seldom focused on the incidents. So coverage is increasing awareness of long standing issues. Many areas use to have a newspaper that covered the black community. in Detroit it was called the Michigan Chronicle and stories like these were reported on frequently while not ever being on network news or reported on by Detroit FreePress or Detroit news. The coverage was very helpful for black citizens to know types of behavior, (using pay phone/ toilet ), & areas (Dearborn was infamous) that targeted blacks.
And as of today … “I don’t want to say he said, ‘Go back to your country,’ or ‘Go back to where you came from,’” Thomas said, walking back her initial description of the incident. “But he was making those types of references is what I remember.” And this makes it hard for folks to believe people who have actually been told this/yelled at … SMH
Ruh-roh. False claim. She’s another lying race hustler. Wonder if she’s related to Tawana Brawley or Al Sharpton?
Yep, she lied. Another race hustler. She should resign her position.
Yet again, another case where TPM readers pile on and are UTTERLY EMBARRASSED when the facts come out. Except the librul DemoBorg is shameless in its pandering to race hustlers.
My husband had surgery on his lower back and was given oxycodone. He still has the full bottle. He was a farmer’s kid and learned to live with pain at an early age. I’ve been fortunate in that I must have a fairly high pain threshold as well. The only time I just wanted to be completely knocked out was when my jaws were wired together after a surgical procedure. I nearly went insane and cried at the drop of a hat. The day those wires were removed was like arriving in heaven.
Nevertheless, calling a 9-mo. pregnant woman with a child at her side “a lazy bitch” is way over the top. This man apparently has no clue what that feels like, what it does to one’s lower back, legs, ankles and feet, etc. He is an idiot and deserves no slack because he didn’t tell her she should go back to where she came from. She didn’t deserve this lout yelling at her.
Furthermore, in the film clip he says there were two empty lanes…he used one to buy his 3 items…so no one was inconvenienced.
His claim that he is not “white” was ridiculous as well.
This was all in Cobb County, Georgia which explains a lot. Cobb County was notorious when I lived in the Atlanta area because the were proud of their “policy” that any blacks should be out of the county by sundown or something unpleasant would happen to them. The voters there also voted against the extension of the rapid transit line because it would bring more black people into the county. These are racist people.
Oh for crying out loud. Get a life.
Sadly, like Jesse Smollett, this fabricated claim will now give every racist idiot an excuse to claim that all the very real incidents of blatant racism are hoaxes.
When you are publically attacked visciously for no reason other than your race it is extremly emotionally upsetting.
Emotions overwhelm the victim & is the dominant thing the brain records as the main trauma.
Emotional traumatic abuse on steroids.
This is why prosecutors will tell you eye witnesses are notoriously unreliable.
Words & facial recognition are jumbled as it is FEELINGS that are seared into the brain and the dominant memory…
This woman told how us how she was made to feel, His verbal attack made her feel she was being attacked based on her race & what he spewed at her FELT like “go back to your country”
She is 9 months pregnant and with a 3 year old toddler who is being terrorized by the man as well. Her emotional state was clearly one of panic and traumatic.
IOWs her recall of the incident paraphrased her emotions.
IMHO
I would never presume to tell someone who’d had a medical or dental procedure to avoid pain pills and just tough it out, but I think it was overkill in my case, the pain was isolated, and it wasn’t over the top. I would’ve taken a few drugs if my jaws were wired together.
I know you’re capable of more enlightened thought than this because we’ve engaged on various issues before and found common ground. But here you’ve hit all the old tired cliches about race just as the cracker in the grocery store did. The woman shouldn’t have taken this minor episode viral but she did, moreover TPM shouldn’t have it run with it either.
Except, of course, that she now seems to be acknowledging that he never said what she first claimed he said. The guy is clearly a jerk, and his insults where completely unnecessary, but the whole “go back where you came from” – the only reason this was even news – apparently never happened, which will once again only serve the right-wing narrative that these type of claims are always hoaxes.
So, in one day, we saw two widely-publicized, widely-sympathized claims about supposed clear racial motivation completely fall apart. Whose agenda do you think it serves when progressives keep leaping to spread these stories that turn out to be incorrect?