Black Americans targeted with racist text messages following presidential election

2024-11-09 34

Black Americans targeted with racist text messages following presidential election

Federal and state authorities are investigating a wave of bigoted text messages sent anonymously that have spread alarm among Black Americans across the country this week, officials and recipients told Reuters. The messages urged recipients in multiple states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia, to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past enslavement of Black people in the United States. Monet Miller, 29, an entertainment publicist in Atlanta, Georgia, said on Nov. 8, 2024 that she read the offensive text message while 'doomscrolling' a day after the presidential election.

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