Georgia GOPer warns black attorney she may go missing if she tries to remove Confederate monument

[RandySF]

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 Georgia’s 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 won’t put up with it like they do in Atlanta.”

“I can guarantee you won’t 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.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/georgia-goper-warns-black-attorney-she-may-go-missing-if-she-tries-to-remove-confederate-monument/

[Iliyah]

1. RWers are violent.

[RandySF]

2. I sent the AJC article to the state AG and CC'd the reporter.

[Maraya1969]

7. Good for you and thank you!

[yardwork]

9. Thank you!

[Sunlei]

3. That's a threat. Politicians who threaten like that should lose their job.

[Liberty Belle]

4. They should lose their freedom, not just their job.

If everyone who made threats of violence had to spend time in the slammer, they'd learn their lessons.

[arthritisR_US]

5. It depends on the slammer they serve time in. White collar blokes

are given pussy breaks.

[Sunlei]

11. DNC should use these Republican threats as election ammunition. They shouldn't be re-elected!!

A elected Senator to pose in front of a statue of slavery/segregation and threaten- is so despicable- he should NEVER be in our government, resign immediately.

Never be re-elected at the minimum.

[arthritisR_US]

16. I would hope so but my fear is that racists outnumber Dems.

[Maraya1969]

6. Here is his information in case anyone wants to tell him what they think

Jason Spencer
404 656 0177
[e-mail]

[n2doc]

8. They really think we are back to the 1920's in the South?

Trump sure has made the bigots bold.

[Orrex]

10. How is that a veiled threat?

If she'd said something similar to him, he'd have shot her and claimed self-defense.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I'm With You, Orrex

That wasn't veiled in any way. It was overt.

[Orrex]

15. Republicans are becoming more bold in their extortion:

"If you impeach Trump, there will be a civil war."
"If you take down these monuments, you'll be murdered."

Here's a fun thought experiment: call any Republican legislator with a similarly "veiled threat" and see how long it takes for the secret service and/or law enforcement to show up at your door.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. 3,2,1. . .

Again, i'm with ya!

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[Blue_Tires]

12. a threat?