SAVANNAH, Ga. — Black Americans in almost a dozen states have been getting calls since the day after Election Day telling them they have been chosen to become slaves.
So far this week, these texts have been seen in South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Maryland, and Alabama.
One of these texts came from a watcher in Savannah to a 16-year-old girl, telling her that she would “be picked up in a white van with a Trump Representative from your area.”
While not all messages are the same, most of them say the same thing: the person receiving it has been chosen to be a slave at the local plantation and should get their things together and wait for a van to pick them up.
“Even though I don’t agree with Trump’s actions, that doesn’t mean that the people who sent these unwanted texts to African Americans after the election were allowed to treat them differently because of their race,” Shante Brown said. Brown’s daughter got the same kind of text message as the other watcher.
WSAV talked to the Georgia Attorney General’s Office about the texts. As of Thursday afternoon, they said they had only just learned about them and did not have a comment to make.
WSAV called the Savannah Police Department to see if anyone else in Savannah had also said they were getting texts. The story continues, and we’ll let you know when we learn more.
Source: ‘You are in slave group B’: Racist texts sent to Black Americans in Georgia
