VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Following Election Day, people across the nation have received racist text messages.
10 On Your Side spoke with a woman in Virginia Beach who said her son received one of those text messages.
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It reads “Greetings, You have been selected to pick cutton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 5AM SHARP with your belongings. Our Executive Slaves will come get you in a BLACK VAN, be prepared to be searched down once you’ve enter the plantation. You are in Plantation Group J. See you there and be prepared to be tired!”
Rita Stith believes the message is calculated because of the election results.
“My thing is this, in that type of manner, targeting adults in texts is one thing, but to harass, torment children, make children fearful, is very egregious,” Stith said. “It’s sickening. It’s a very immature and vile action to come from, I’m going to just go ahead and say an adult, because in my mind, … kids are smart these days, but to be so calculated with it, you know, I was very disturbed.”