Text messages invoking slavery were sent to Black men, women and children
Several federal and state agencies are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week.
While the texts varied somewhat, they all instructed recipients to “board a bus” that would transport them to a “plantation” to work as slaves, officials said. They said the messages were sent to school-aged children and college students, causing significant distress. Phone service provider TextNow said that “one or more of our accounts” were used to send the racist text messages and that it quickly disabled those accounts for violating its terms of service.
These racist text messages span the entire country, predominately targeting Black Americans, and more specifically Black children as young as middle schoolers. “She has a lot of friends of different races. She’s the one that doesn’t see colour and she doesn’t see a difference. So, I feel like for her, it really showed her that everyone isn’t like her,” Nicole said. “Racism is still a very prominent thing in our country right now.”
“It’s a way to say to, especially Black college students, that this is the world they are now living in, that this kind of outright racist intimidation is coming back to the norm in American society and American politics,” Greene said. “No doubt about it, fear and intimidation are the heart of what’s going on with these text messages.”
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