It is unclear who is behind the reported texts, how many people had received them, or how the recipients were targeted.
(Racist mass text messages were sent to Black Americans across the US in the wake of the presidential election this week.
"To find out that all these African American people are getting it, that was the scariest part about it," she said. "Who is doing that?" Ms Murrill, who is white, said one of the messages hit her personal email box after 8am on Friday local time.The message greeted her with an ethnic slur and said "Now that trump is president, you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation" and that "Our guys will come get you in a van."Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown said his office is fielding multiple reports of racist text messages being sent to Black residents, including children.
“This is an intimidating, threatening use of technology” that likely violated multiple laws, Mr Brown said. He said investigators will use "all the tools and resources available to us to hold accountable whoever is behind these text messages.” "These actions are not normal. And we refuse to let them be normalised," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement from the civil rights organisation, which advocates for racial justice and rights for Black Americans.
Some Black Americans have said they fear a roll back of civil rights after Republican Donald Trump, who won Tuesday's presidential election over Democrat Kamala Harris, takes office on January 20. Trump, who made racist and sexist attacks against his Black opponent, has pledged to end federal diversity and inclusion programs.
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