#IStandWithErica Trends on Twitter after Black Georgia Lawmaker Erica Thomas Says She was Told `Go Back Where You Came From` at Supermarket
(World News USA)

Erica Thomas, a member of the Georgia state legislature, said that she was `verbally attacked` while grocery shopping with her young daughter on Friday by a man who called her a `lazy sonofabitch` and told her to `go back where you came from.` Thomas, an African American woman who has represented Georgia`s 39th District, located just west of Atlanta, since being elected in 2014, first shared her story of the incident Friday afternoon in a Facebook live video, where she tearfully recalled the events. `I decided to go live because I`m very upset because people are getting really out of control with this, with this white privilege stuff,` said the state legislator. `I`m at the grocery and I`m...