DeWitt R. Thomas filed a federal lawsuit in July against Keith Langston, owner of Two Rivers Grocery & Market.According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Thomas entered the market on March 5 to buy food.According to the lawsuit, Thomas went on to explain he meant a black person when he used the term “negroidal.”The sacker, Aaron Menefee, said he thought Thomas was just kidding around.“The first time he said it, I thought he was joking,” Menefee said. “Then he just kept repeating it.”Langston wasn’t in the store at the time, but his employees told him about the incident.Thomas said Langston broke the law the night he locked him in the store.“We were closing, and I don’t know of a business that doesn’t lock their doors when they close. It keeps more people from coming in,” Langston said.Thomas said he has not broken any laws and was exercising his religious freedom and the rights he has been given.Thomas’ based his claim that his civil rights were violated on that criminal trespass order. He also said Langston is wrong for trying to tell him who can touch his groceries and refusing to serve him.“When I go through (a store) and buy groceries, those groceries become my property,” Thomas said.“We have a few people who want to sack their own groceries, but it’s not for the same reasons DeWitt gave,” Langston said. “They do it because they just like to have their stuff bagged a certain way, certain groceries in certain bags.”Thomas said he is going forward with his complaint because Langston has no right to stand against what he believes in.“If he wants to stand in opposition of who I am, then we are going to go forward with this here thing,” Thomas said.“I’ve had several people say they would’ve touched a hell of a lot more than his groceries if they had been in line behind him,” Langston said. --RIght. Yeah. That's it; stick a fork in me, I'm done for the day.