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A Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives issued a veiled threat of lynching to a black former colleague who expressed anti-Confederate memorial sentiments on his Facebook
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer (R) did exactly that on a Facebook post when former state representative LaDawn Jones expressed a distaste for a photo he took with a Confederate monument.
This is Georgias history, Spencer wrote on a post accompanied by a selfie he took with a South Georgia monument to Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Jones, who formerly served in the state legislature until last year, questioned whether state tax dollars help pay for the upkeep of the memorial, which includes the house Davis fled to after the Civil War ended. A few comments in, Spencer began making threatening allusions.
Continue your quixotic journey into South Georgia and it will not be pleasant, Spencer replied. The truth. Not a warning. Those folks wont put up with it like they do in Atlanta.
I can guarantee you wont be met with torches but something a lot more definitive, he continued, responding to Jones comment about the store-bought tiki torches used by the white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally earlier this month.
After another person commented about the differences between Atlanta (a city who has a large African American population) and the rest of Georgia, Spencer agreed.
They will go missing in the Okefenokee [swamp], he wrote. Too many necks they are red around here. Dont say I didnt warn you about em.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/georgia-goper-warns-black-attorney-she-may-go-missing-if-she-tries-to-remove-confederate-monument/
brush
(53,729 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 30, 2017, 09:45 AM - Edit history (1)
on record if anything happens to her.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Looks like Rep. Spencer's cause is once again lost. Pathetic little man.
Docreed2003
(16,846 posts)What a sick twisted mind and he's brazen enough to flaunt this crap on Facebook.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)They have history.
If it were anybody other than Jason Spencer, then I would be alarmed. But we had a unique relationship in the Georgia Legislature, said Jones, who served from 2012 to 2016. If that had come from anybody else, Id take it as a serious threat.
Still, she added, she was concerned by his reaction.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/29/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments/
still_one
(92,060 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I only posted that because everyone was curious whether or not she had contacted the FBI or police.
still_one
(92,060 posts)comment about that "history"
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)about Jason Spencer. But I think she ought to take a hard look at him; it didn't seem like he was playing.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Lock them all up - these people have gotten out of control since Trump took office.
oasis
(49,320 posts)That should be the graffiti on Jeff Davis' monument.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)Over a participation trophy for the losers.
Let that sink in.
demmiblue
(36,816 posts)Persondem
(1,936 posts)Will post on my social media.