BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT ) — Reports of racist text messages to high school and college students have been making waves across the country and now in central Alabama.
Students at the University of Alabama and Montevallo High School in Shelby County received a text reading, in part, “Greetings, you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 1:00 p.m. SHARP with your belongings. Our executive slaves will come get you in a brown van. Be prepared to be searched down once you’ve entered the plantation. You are in Plantation Group C. Good day.”
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Margaret Huang, the President and CEO of Southern Poverty Law Center, said they have started their own investigation.
“The investigation is that somebody went to the trouble to purchase cell phone information into some group of people. We don’t know how many yet, but that’s what’s underlying it,” said Huang.
According to SPLC, the texts were sent to young Black people and students across the country, including students at the University of Alabama.