The Ohio Attorney General’s Office and the FBI are investigating after Black Ohioans received racist scam text messages.
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The text messages were sent to people after Election Day, according to our media partners WBNS-10 TV and WCPO-9 TV .
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The messages tell the recipient that “you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.”
It includes a date and time, telling the recipient they will be picked up by “executive slaves” in a van, both stations report.
“Be prepared to get searched so don’t try anything,” the text reads.
WCPO-9 staff spoke with several people in the Greater Cincinnati region who received the overtly racist messages.
One woman in the Cincinnati area received a different message that included her name.