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In the aftermath of the electionsBlack people all over the country have reported receiving racist text messages threatening them with slavery, prompting investigations in several states and a federal investigation.
The anonymously sent text messages appeared to have begun Wednesday morning, just hours after the presidential election was called Donald Trump. NBC News reported that the messages were of a similar naturetelling people that they have been ‘selected’ to pick cotton on a plantation and be ready by a certain time. In some texts the recipient was mentioned by name.
Several messages also mentioned Trump, although the Trump campaign has dismissed the text messages.
Also multiple messages mentioned Trumpalthough the Trump campaign has dismissed the text messages. Campaign communications adviser Brian Hughes told NBC News that linking Trump to the messages is “absolute nonsense.” “If we can find the origin of these messages promoting this kind of ugliness in our name, we will of course take legal action to stop it,” Hughes said in a statement.
The the FBI said Thursday that it is “aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals across the country” and is in contact with other federal authorities, including the Department of Justice. The The Federal Communications Commission said it is also investigatingas did Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. New York Attorney General Letitia James said some recipients are as young as high school students.
The source or sources of the text messages remain a mystery. NBC News reported that some of the original numbers appear to be linked to TextNow, a text messaging service that allows users to use untraceable numbers. A spokesperson for TextNow told NBC News that it is aware of the messages and has shut down the service affected accounts “within the hour.”
On Friday, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the Louisiana Bureau of Investigations cyber team had traced a number of messages to a VPN in Poland.
“At this time they have not found an original source – meaning they could come from a bad state in the region or the world,” she said in a statement, adding that the investigation is ongoing.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson condemned the text messages in a statementThey say they represent “an alarming increase in vile and disgusting rhetoric from racist groups across the country, who now feel emboldened to spread hate and fan the flames of fear that many of us are feeling after Tuesday’s election results. ”