"WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - 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 and Virginia, to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past enslavement of Black people in the United States."
I can see why Blacks would find this offensive. If I received such a message6 ordering me to appear at the Episcopalian Church on Sunday (which is why some ofrrif my ancestors came to America), I would categorize it as a stupid nuisance rather like the continual fundraising texts that I get.
I am guessing this is either Russian attempts to stir up division (as they did after Trump's 2016 victory) or the DNC trying to terrify Blacks like Biden's claim to the NAACP in 2012 that President Romney would put them back in chains.
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