Georgia State Representative, Erica Thomas, took to twitter and facebook a few days ago with a sobbbing video in which she hysterically claims some godforsaken white devil berated her in a Publix grocery store for having too many items in an express checkout lane, claiming he told her, among other things, to "go back" where she came from.

The video went viral, leading to the hashtag #IStandWithErica spreading on twitter, and the Georgia Dem Party issuing a statement saying, "We stand with you Erica Thomas. Trump’s racist rhetoric is emboldening hate across Georgia and our country.” https://archive.li/Fa69j

Surely, a white racist neon-nazi emboldened by the racist extremist provocations of one Donald J. Drumpf.

Surely, an incident foreshadowing the direction our nation is headed in under its current leadership.

Surely,

Except it isn't.

What Erica Thomas did not expect was for this evil white devil to show up while she was being interviewed by a local news crew and rebut her claims. Which he did, clarifying that not only did he not tell her to "go back" where she came from, but that he is himself a Cuban immigrant and a Democrat. Facts that have apparently been veirified by his own social media positngs before this incident, such as facebook post telling Donald Trump he should go back where he came from - "Nazi Germany"(no one said the guy was on trial for originality). https://archive.li/5Ty8a

Surrounded by news cameras, Eric Sparkes appears to tell his side of the story, with Erica Thomas present, she panics, threatening and berating him, even at one point even telling him he's "going to jail"; a disturbing proclomation for any person holding a legislative seat to make to a private citizen for the mere utterance of words, let alone, in this case, words he may never have even uttered te begin with.

According to Eric Sparkes, her lies don't end there. Not only did she lie about the content what he said, he says, but his instigation of the situation that led to him calling her a "bitch" (which it is all but objectively clear that she is at this point), in the first place.

After informing two employees at the grocery story that she had too many items in the express lane, Sparkes says, he was told that employees are not allowed to confront customers about the express lane but that other customers can.

Which Sparkes says he did. Initially approaching Thomas to tell her she had too many items for the express checkout lane and that it wasn't until after she began berating him after that that he proceeded to call her a "lazy bitch," stating that this is the worst thing he said.

Judging by the behavior of Thomas and Sparkes while he attempts to tell his story, well, I'll leave it to you to decide which person seems more likely to make a spectacle out of a small issue in a public setting.

And now that the "assailant" has come forward to rebut her initial claims, and that Thomas has admitted he did not tell her to "go back" where she came from, or at the very least, that she does not remember exactly what he said but that he was "making those types of references" (whatever that menas); the lynchpin of Thomas' justification for coming forward and continuing her attempts to publicly admonish this private citizen is that this man, any man, would have the audacitiy to "harass" a black woman, a pregnant one no less, in public. God forbid.

So you see, Thomas is simply using her position of power to give a voice to the voiceless and stand up for black women everywhere.

She isn't stopping there either. In a subsequent interview, Thomas claims that what Sparkes did was incitement, that she feared for her life, and that he committed a hate crime. She wants to make an example out of him.

She wants him in jail.

Shockingly, one reporter actually has the balls to bring up free speech. Clearly, her views on the matter are unbecoming of any elected official in the United States, to say the least.

Sparkes, of course, claims Thomas is only doing this for political gain. And in a media climate infested with rabid journos foaming at the mouth when any opportunity to destroy an innocent person's reputation and livelihood for the "better good" (and the clicks, of course) presents itself, one can't blame Sparkes for trying to get in front of the story before one of them manages to identify and destroy him before he has a chance to make his case.

Sparkes also says he has been speaking with attorneys about a defamation suit against Thomas.

After Sparkes spoke out, Georgia Republicans began pushing the #HateHoax hashtag on Twitter and are demanding that Thomas step down if it is indeed proved she's lying. https://archive.li/Fa69j

The crux of all this lies in the what revelations may be held in Publix's surveillance footage, which has been handed over to police, but has not yet been released publicly. There is no audio, so all that will really matter is discerning who started acting irrationally first, if it's possible to discern from the footage at all. Sparkes says he was calm when he first approached her, and only became angry when she began berating him, so while the real issue should be that Thomas lied about what Sparkes said, we know the media will latch onto any indication that Sparkes provoked Thomas by berating her first, if the video does indeed show that.

The most preposterous aspect of this entire endeavor, of course, is the idea that an incident like this, true or not, could be considered a national news story. But, once again