Racist texts sent to black people.

[alfaniner]

Racist texts sent to black people.

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children, college students and working professionals from unrecognized phone numbers in the wake of the presidential election.

Now, I can't be sure that it is exactly related to the election although the timing is suspect, but I put the thread here instead of the USA Politics section.

I've used TextNow before, but you can't use it to set up another Gmail or that type of account, because they won't accept "anonymous" numbers. (Trust me, I've tried lots of workarounds.) So, since TN is supposed to be anonymous, how did the senders determine who to send the messages to? Some of them were named by name in their texts. As far as I know, they don't take demographic information and it would seem to have to come from inside the company anyway.

This goes with my one small wish that the new Administration would actually do something useful and destroy all spammers. Getting calls for "business funding" is one thing, but this is magnitudes worse.

 

[LiteBright]

The texts seems to have been sent exclusively to black people also which suggests the perpetrators were working from some sort of list. I don't really know a lot about how TextNow works.

What a sad state of things when children are receiving these message. Absolutely disgusting.

 

[shemp]

It's just the beginning, it'll get worse.

 

[theprestige]

Yep. Pretty soon black people are gonna start receiving "this is MAGA country!" text messages while they're picking up Subway at 2am in the dead of winter.

 

[Shrinker]

I saw a comment elsewhere warning that everyone should consider the possibility this is the work of the Russians or similar. Because it does appear to be succeeding perfectly in turning Americans against each other.

 

[bruto]

With the situation as it is these days I figure it could be anyone (that is anyone who is stupid and wicked), from foreign agitators to dogeared Trumpies to left wing false-flaggers. All scum.

Now wouldn't it be nice if someone....say a person who had just won an election....to come out and make a plain, non partisan, non yesbutty, unequivocal statement saying this is unacceptable from any quarter. Imagine the word "unity" with meaning attached.

 

[newyorkguy]

Not quite the same....? But sometimes they get caught.

Kristin Keeble, age 54, of Pageland, South Carolina sent four profanity-laced, racially derogatory audio messages through Facebook Messenger on Oct. 26, 2023 to a Greene County (NY) man who resides in the village of Catskill (NY). In the messages, she threatened to kill the man, along with a woman he knew and the woman's children, claiming she would hang all of them from a tree. Keeble referenced acting with members of the Ku Klux Klan, authorities said. From the victim's Facebook profile, she knew he was Black. MSN article link

Keeble was arrested by FBI agents and, facing a criminal trial in Albany (NY), she pleaded guilty on Friday. She faces up to five years in prison.

Will trump pardon her? After all, they were audio messages. Doesn't this woman have freedom of speech???