Shortly after the end of the presidential election in the USA, the ugly face of racism is once again showing itself there. Several African Americans reported receiving racist text messages on their smartphones after the end of the preliminary count, according to the US civil rights organization National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – NAACP.
Black residents of North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama and Pennsylvania received text messages from an unknown sender. The messages asked them to “report to a plantation to pick cotton.”
Trump with an increase in votes in the black population
Recipients share the SMS they receive on social media platforms. “You have been selected to become a slave on the Abingdon Plantation,” says one of the posts published by X user Joshua Martin. The Abingdon Plantation is a site in the US capital of Washington, DC, notorious for former slave labor
Black students across the country have been receiving these extremely disgusting messages shortly after the election was called.< br>
These people always felt this way, now they feel empowered to speak their mind. pic.twitter.com/iGDvQyoEGj— Joshua Martin (@JoshuaRMartin) November 7, 2024
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, millions of people from Africa were captured as slaves and transported across the Atlantic to what is now the United States. There they were offered for sale in markets and then used for forced labor in households and, among other things, in agriculture.
There is currently no evidence as to who exactly is responsible for the messages sent. The US Federal Police FBI simply stated that they knew about the “racist short messages”. For the time being, the FBI left it open whether the authority would now initiate an investigation.
USA continues to struggle with racism
“The unfortunate reality of having elected a president who has welcomed and sometimes even encouraged hate in the past is looming large before our eyes,” said NAACP Chairman Derrick Johnson, commenting on the events. Previously, Donald Trump won the US presidential election with a clear majority on Tuesday. He also recorded an increase in votes in the black community in the USA.
The goal of a racism-free USA still remains unfulfilled. 70 years ago, the Supreme Court in Washington paved the way for equal rights in US schools with a fundamental decision – the separation of black and white children should finally be abolished 100 years after the end of slavery in the USA. But recent election campaign appearances, not least by Donald Trump himself, raise great doubts as to whether a rethink can be achieved in the minds of – mostly white – Americans. Racist attitudes and abuses are still commonplace in the USA.
