Be vigilant people! It’s already started in Houston, Illinois, Georgia or a community near you. Black and Brown people are being targeted and told to ‘go back to your country’ by vile racist bigots. Trump has emboldened these racist thugs & they’re bubbling over with hate ready to instigate whether it’s at the gas station, grocery store or restaurant. Don’t be caught off guard. Keep safe.
A pregnant African American lawmaker in Georgia said she was verbally attacked in a supermarket Friday by a middle-aged white man who used profanity, called her vulgar names and told her to “go back where you came from” as her nine-year-old daughter looked on.
Erica Thomas, a Democrat and Georgia state representative from Austell, said the man was irate that she was in an express line with too many items. Thomas said she was in a line for customers with 10 items or less because she cannot stand for long periods of time.
“And this white man comes up to me and says, ‘You lazy son of a bitch,”’ Thomas said, sobbing as she described the confrontation in a Facebook video. “He says, ‘You lazy son of a bitch; you need to go back where you came from.”’
Thomas said she was stunned by his anger. “I said, ‘Sir, you don’t even know me. I’m not lazy. I’m nine months pregnant.”’
Thomas said she never identified herself to the man as a public official. She said she was so taken aback by his actions that she didn’t think to try to record them.
The incident came days after Donald Trump tweeted that four congresswomen of color, including the US congresswoman Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota, should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from.
In Thomas’ video, she alludes to Trump’s attacks on Omar. Thomas never mentions Trump’s name but says, “There’s so much hate in this world and it’s being incited by our president every single day.”
https://twitter.com/itsericathomas/status/1152732976603680769
https://twitter.com/JasminaAlstonTV/status/1152684640844558341
https://twitter.com/TwitterMoments/status/1152640675613204480
She is so pretty! Awesome teeth and smile.
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1152669021277433856
https://twitter.com/AttorneyGriggs/status/1152640608995041282
Surely @Publix has cameras in the store. What will you do about protecting the safety of your customers shopping @Publix? The racist thug could do it again. He feels emboldened.
I can already see some folks in my neck of the woods going to jail if anyone steps to them with this shyt. It’s gonna be on in 3-2-1…..
https://twitter.com/RenDoughty/status/1152560286739701760
https://twitter.com/Ms_Unique_86/status/1152600376434200581
https://twitter.com/frautuck/status/1152611888406155264
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1152609875454832640
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1152601601460375558
It’s dangerous for Black and Brown people in this country. So be safe as you travel this weekend or go out to eat at restaurants or shopping. Don’t be caught unaware.