Black people are receiving racist text messages about picking cotton 'at the nearest plantation'

[BumRushDaShow]

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 you’ve 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

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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]

1. MAGAts are disgusting.

Their orange fuehrer knows how to make people mean.

[Harker]

12. Meaner, I think.

They're already mean.

[Historic NY]

2. Some maga that can't even spell

its Hawaiian area code.

[Demovictory9]

3. I recall trumps 2016 win. Kids were telling black and brown kids they would be slaves/deported

There was chaos..horrible time

[Karasu]

4. And to think...

...it hasn't even been 3 full days.

[Lovie777]

5. When a lot of immigrate workers deported.............

there will be plenty of jobs for whites.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Nah

The texts are coming from inside the building, and they are telling black Americans precisely what our fate is . . . if we stay.

[yardwork]

10. I think that text came from Russia. See my post below.

Just Putin trying to scare us.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Oh, you didn't think MAGA would stop

at immigrants, did you?

Make America White Again

[Jack Valentino]

8. Hey MAGA---- Ever heard of NAT TURNER ??

[yardwork]

9. That message was written by someone for whom English is not their main language.

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]

11. I'm thinking China

but for what reason?

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Psyops/terrorism

[yardwork]

15. Yes. Cause fear and create distrust.

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]

13. How did they get those numbers?

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]

17. There are so many ways to get info now.

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]

23. I was just looking at an article this morning and saw this -

Pennsylvania school district reports several students have received racist text messages

(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]

16. Clear evidence that the South never got over the Civil War

I've been thinking about this ever since Trump came on the scene.

It's white over everything for way too many people.

[yardwork]

18. Be careful. As I wrote upthread, I think this message came from Russia.

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]

19. I see what you mean.

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]

21. It's definitely true of many southerners.

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]

22. Parsing it out on an individual level is nice...

but the former Confederate states are all red
and still racist and misogynistic as hell.

[yardwork]

24. That's demonstrably not true.

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]

25. Except VA, all went for Trump.

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]

20. I'm afraid to Georgia that these texts are from is located in Russia

Seriously dozens of people receive texts from some foreign scum? This is the slowest news Day news ever

[CrispyQ]

27. Read my post below. Maybe you think that's slow news day news, too? -nt

[CrispyQ]

26. "Your body, my choice" is supposedly trending on twitter among men, Boys are chanting this at girls at school.

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]

28. Sounds like an effort by another country to sow fear and confusion following the election.

[sarisataka]

30. It is like the babysitter story

"The call is coming from inside the house"

[BMW2020RT]

29. I think Tennessee students too.

[TBF]

31. We've already seen this in our school district (public, suburban, south of Houston) -

one of the school board members told me about it this morning.

[imax2268]

32. Oh just wait...

It's only going to get worse.

[Crowman2009]

33. Well there will a there be a lot of dead owners/farmers if they try that.

Along with cotton fields set ablaze if it's dry enough. Plus gun ownership isn't exclusive to right-wing but jobs.

[Evolve Dammit]

34. They want to go way back to Comstock Act (1876). Wouldn't be surprised if they want voting rights and slavery also

[jmowreader]

35. Like any cotton plantation owner even WANTS people to pick their cotton these days...

&t=139s

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]

41. Thank you for posting!

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]

36. No.

Hideous monsters.

[mpcamb]

37. Kinda open the floodgates with this election...

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]

38. Some of the pleasures and joy of republican governing.

More than a little

[LudwigPastorius]

39. The Russian Troll Farm workers are putting in overtime so they have enough rubles for their Christmas vodka.

[Yavin4]

40. Is this that White working class economic anxiety that soo many people are talking about? n/t

[electric_blue68]

42. The messages are disgusting from either source, and the taunting at school horrible