Black Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas, who accused a man of racism and screaming at her to "go back to where you came from" in a heated grocery store confrontation, has doubled down on her original assertion after backtracking over the weekend. She said in a Monday morning press conference, "I'm not backtracking" on her weekend accusations.

Thomas claimed on Friday in a tearful Facebook post that a man verbally accosted her at a Publix grocery store after she brought too many items to an express checkout lane. She claimed the man told her and her 9-year-old daughter to "go back to where you came from" in a racially driven tirade. The following day, as Thomas spoke to reporters about her claim, the accused man confronted her in front of the store while the cameras were rolling.

The man, Eric Sparkes, claimed that Thomas was using him to manipulate a political stunt and that he was in no way 'racist,' as Thomas had alleged. Sparkes, an outspoken Democrat of Cuban heritage, admitted that he did confront the pregnant lawmaker in anger after she violated the store policy of bringing too many items to the express checkout lane, but never told her to "go back" to where she came from.

Later that day, Thomas appeared to backtrack on her story as she told reporters that she couldn't remember exactly what Sparkes had said to her in the confrontation.

She recounted, "I don't know if he said 'go back,' or those types of words ... I don't know if he said 'go back to your country' or 'go back to where you came from,' but he was making those types of references is what I remember."

When a reporter directly asked Thomas if she remembered what the man said to her in the confrontation, she said, "No, no, definitely not. But I know it was 'go back' because I know I told him to 'go back.'"

In a Monday morning press conference with her attorney, however, Thomas claimed that she was not backing down from her original claim that a racist Sparkes had told her to "go back to where she came from."

"He said, 'Go back where you came from!' ... and after that, he kept harassing me." She said. "I was embarrassed, and I was scared for my life."