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According to information in a police report, it was the accuser–a Georgia state legislator–who uttered an allegedly racist phrase to a fellow shopper at a grocery store.That news from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.Rep. Erica Thomas originally claimed a “white†man confronted her when she had too many items in an express lane and hurled racist insults at her including “Go back to your country†or “Go back where you came from.â€In making the accusation, Thomas tied President Trump to the alleged incident because Trump had recently suggested that four members of Congress who criticize America should “go back†to their families’ countries of origin and make them better....There are multiple other recent instances of allegedly faked racial crimes and allegation tied to President Trump.
Hate crime hoaxes have become a tried and true American tradition. We can generally count on a spate of high profile hoaxes to mark each season, especially since President Trump was elected.This past fall, college hoaxers carried most of the load. A racist message posted to a dorm room door at Kansas State turned out to be written by the supposed victim. A student at Ohio University received anti-gay death threats that she had sent to herself.The winter featured two all-time great hoaxes with Jussie Smollett staging a racist assault on himself and the media turning a group of innocent high school kids into a roving gang of dangerous bigots. Neither of these quite rose to the level of, say, the infamous Clock Boy Hoax, but they came close.Spring was a slow time for hate hoax fans. Fortunately, Canada gave us a little something to snack on as we waited for the summer hoaxing season to begin. A Jewish-run restaurant in Winnipeg was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti which the Jewish owners had themselves applied. The summer is usually primetime for the classic "racist message left on restaurant receipt" hoax — my favorite genre, personally — but Democratic Representative Erica Thomas decided to stray from that script this week. Thomas claimed that a racist white man verbally assaulted her for bringing too many items into the express lane at the grocery store, calling her "lazy" and telling her to go back where she came from. Hate hoax connoisseurs could sense the phoniness immediately. ......All of this hoaxing is peculiar. We are assured by the Left that America is a racist country where white supremacists roam free. Bigotry is endemic. Racism lies at the very foundation of all of our major societal institutions, they tell us. Strange, then, to see members of racial and ethnic minorities inventing fake occurrences of racism. Why should that be necessary, if racism is as rampant as they say? If there is such a surplus of bigotry, why was Erica Thomas stuck with the homemade variety? Why would someone who wishes to be the victim of racism have to conjure it out of thin air in a country where racism is allegedly so common? Indeed, how could anyone have that wish to begin with? How could they ever develop the desire to be victimized by racism if they live in a country where racism is an everyday reality? Real victims don't treat victimhood like a game.
PeteS asks:"Will her legislative colleagues and district's voters reward her for her slanderous race-baiting?"She'll probably be re-elected with MORE votes than she received last time.
