Excerpt from the WSU Guardian
Students nationwide received threatening racist text messages from anonymous senders a day after Trump won the Presidency. Students on Wright State’s campus were not spared.
The messages were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, according to the Associated Press. While the messages varied from recipient to recipient, the general message was the same.
“CONGRATULATIONS! you have been selected to Pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Please Be prepared to leave your home November 24th, 2024. You will be picked up 8am sharp in our van. You will sit with Group B. Have a good day [Name of Student]!” the message reads.
It remains unclear how the sender got names and identity information of the individual students.
Tasha Dunham of Lodi, Calif., told the Associated Press her 16-year-old daughter received one of these messages.
“I wasn’t in slavery. My mother wasn’t in slavery. But we’re a couple of generations away. So, when you think about how brutal and awful slavery was for our people, it’s awful and concerning,” Dunham said.
Some of the texts were labeled as coming from “A TRUMP SUPPORTER”.
