It involved two of the most emotionally volatile issues in the American South: Confederate monuments and lynching. And this week, the pair got into an online scuffle in which some say Spencer made a violent, racist threat. For four years, her seatmate in the Georgia House of Representatives was Jason Spencer, a white Republican from the southern tip of the state. Jones, who has advocated for removing Confederate memorials from the state’s most vaunted places, posted a comment warning her former colleague that he should “get it in . At one point, Jones told Spencer to “put your hoods and your tiki torches away.

Source: thestar August 31, 2017 02:48 UTC