Black people are receiving racist text messages about picking cotton 'at the nearest plantation'
Source: NBC News
Nov. 7, 2024, 6:24 PM EST
Dozens of Black people across the country said they have received text messages telling them they had been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.
The messages came just hours after the polarized presidential election came to a close this week.
On Wednesday morning, Monèt Miller, a publicist from Atlanta, was reeling over Donald Trump winning the White House when she received a text message from an unknown phone number.
Our Executive Slaves will come get you in a Brown Van, the message read, be prepared to be searched down once youve enter the plantation.
A text message received by Monét Miller.Courtesy Monet Miller
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-people-text-messages-picking-cotton-nearest-plantation-rcna179036
Apparently these texts have also gone to middle school and high school students too, where there were reports of some in suburban Philly (in Montgomery and Delaware County) getting them.
Welcome to America!
The Genealogist
(4,736 posts)Their orange fuehrer knows how to make people mean.
Harker
(14,926 posts)They're already mean.
Historic NY
(37,850 posts)its Hawaiian area code.
Demovictory9
(33,752 posts)There was chaos..horrible time
Karasu
(93 posts)...it hasn't even been 3 full days.
Lovie777
(14,994 posts)there will be plenty of jobs for whites.
The texts are coming from inside the building, and they are telling black Americans precisely what our fate is . . . if we stay.
yardwork
(64,318 posts)Just Putin trying to scare us.
no_hypocrisy
(48,778 posts)at immigrants, did you?
Make America White Again
Jack Valentino
(1,327 posts)yardwork
(64,318 posts)Cotten is misspelled. Nobody says "12PM SHARP" anymore, especially not in all caps. That is an outmoded word. Most Americans don't put the PM right next to the 12 without space.
"Our Executive Slaves" makes no sense and is a misuse of the word "executive."
"Be prepared to be searched down" is ungrammatical and no American would use those words.Its either "searched" or "patted down" never "searched down."
Typo with ""enter the plantation"
You are in Group S? Most Americans don't use letters to identify groups. We like numbers.
This was probably written by a Russian.
GusBob
(7,531 posts)but for what reason?
BumRushDaShow
(142,220 posts)yardwork
(64,318 posts)People receive messages like that and wonder "who wrote this?!" They think about people who have their number. It creates distrust, splinters connections, cuts our society apart.
That's been Putin's goal, which is why I think it came from there.
IronLionZion
(46,963 posts)Somebody paid for a distro list of black people's phone numbers. Somebody sold it to them. There should be some traceability here to where it originated.
yardwork
(64,318 posts)Google, Twitter, Facebook, all the cell phone companies.... data is sold and packaged and stratified.
When I traveled outside the country recently I went to notify my credit cards, whose websites now say "we have lots of ways of knowing when you travel, no need to notify us anymore."
BumRushDaShow
(142,220 posts)(snip)
"The racist nature of these text messages is extremely disturbing, made even more so by the fact that children have been targeted," Shafer said. "While the source of these messages has not been determined, we want to unequivocally state that racist language is unacceptable in our schools and will not be tolerated."
Shafer did not say what the text messages said or when they were sent. It's also unclear who is sending the messages.
She says the incidents have been reported to Lower Merion Township police for further investigation.
There have been similar reports made in other states. The texts were sent from numbers with area codes in dozens of states including Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, Texas, Florida and California, according to screenshots reviewed by CBS News Confirmed. Several of the numbers were disconnected on Thursday, while others went to voicemail that identified them as using a service called 'TextNow,' a coverage provider that allows people to create phone numbers for free.
(snip)
TextNow is a VoIP provider with an app that basically can be the equivalent of providing a "burner phone", with a generated phone number. It's literally like the wild wild west out there.
ananda
(30,812 posts)I've been thinking about this ever since Trump came on the scene.
It's white over everything for way too many people.
yardwork
(64,318 posts)While it's certainly true that there's too much racism, I doubt this was written by the Klan in Mississippi. It was written and sent to do exactly what your post illustrates - divide us and create distrust. Don't fall for it. Recognize propaganda and psyops for what they are.
ananda
(30,812 posts)However, using southern racist language
means that they assume that the South
never got over the Civil War...
which I also think is true.
yardwork
(64,318 posts)It's also definitely not true of many southerners. I've lived in "the South" for more than 40 years, after being raised in Ohio. I saw horrible racism in OH and see it here, too. I also see lots of southerners - including my grown children - who devote their lives to fighting against racism and bigotry.
The electoral college map makes almost all of us look like MAGATs. We're not.
ananda
(30,812 posts)but the former Confederate states are all red
and still racist and misogynistic as hell.
yardwork
(64,318 posts)Virginia is as "former Confederate" as a state can be - the birthplace of Robert E. Lee - and they voted for Harris.
North Carolina is a "former Confederate state" that just elected a liberal, Jewish Democratic governor.
Georgia came through for Biden in 2020 and saved our senate majority that year, too.
Many former Union states, like OH and IN, are far redder. They vote Republican up and down the ballot every election.
ananda
(30,812 posts)And to top it off, I think southern racist, misogynistic
thinking has affected formerly blue states as well.
When the Republican running is bad or weak enough
(and that has to be very bad and very weak), a
Democrat like Stein can win.
But other than that, southerners vote red.
Even in former confederate states which could
conceivably go blue, gerrymandering and voter
suppression are preventing that from happening.
Trump won the election because of this, also.
Jk23
(401 posts)Seriously dozens of people receive texts from some foreign scum? This is the slowest news Day news ever
CrispyQ
(38,238 posts)CrispyQ
(38,238 posts)Nick Fuentes supposedly tweeted it but I don't know how to verify if the acct is real. There are stories on FB that boys are taunting & harassing girls at school with the same words. IDK if that's true but it will be soon since it's out there.
It's open season on women, minorities, & LGBTQ. I am just sick. Just sick & so goddamned pissed off at these hateful fucks.
Martin68
(24,597 posts)sarisataka
(20,983 posts)"The call is coming from inside the house"
BMW2020RT
(146 posts)TBF
(34,278 posts)one of the school board members told me about it this morning.
imax2268
(6,006 posts)It's only going to get worse.
Crowman2009
(2,804 posts)Along with cotton fields set ablaze if it's dry enough. Plus gun ownership isn't exclusive to right-wing but jobs.
Evolve Dammit
(18,603 posts)jmowreader
(51,438 posts)This is how cotton is actually picked. This machine has a four-person crew and only one of the four picks cotton - the others get the modules out of the field and take them to the gin so it can be processed. And since these machines are way over $1 million apiece you don't own them yourself; a harvesting company comes in and does the work.
NO ONE in the cotton business wants to cover their field with laborers.
BumRushDaShow
(142,220 posts)I actually watched the whole thing (although had to do it in 2 parts since I was jammed up yesterday).
As a gardener for a hobby, I remember years ago researching cotton just to see how it was grown and IIRC, it's a "long season" type crop, requiring a long growing season to get to maturity for harvest. And I *think* the video was filmed in MO, so if that is the case, I expect that would have been filmed in southern MO.
mahina
(18,938 posts)Hideous monsters.
mpcamb
(2,968 posts)cotton plantations
"women are property"
politicize and weaponize CIA
imprison Letitia James
investigations of people who trash-talk his company
And I'm only a quarter of the way down the column!
republianmushroom
(17,612 posts)More than a little