It involved two of the most emotionally volatile issues in the American South: Confederate monuments and lynching. At one point, Jones told Spencer to “put your hoods and your tiki torches away. Jones said that while she thinks her former colleague’s comments “absolutely and completely crossed the line, I personally did not feel threatened.”[Should Confederate monuments come down? GOP Jason Spencer warned colleague Jones talk of ditching Confederate statues could cause Democrat to ‘go missing’ https://t.co/1Jn6umItwD. Take a ship ‘back to Africa’: Florida judge reassigned after alleged comments about black people‘Learn your manners,’ a white man wrote to his black neighbor.

Source: Washington Post August 30, 2017 20:35 UTC