The FBI is investigating racist text messages being sent to Black people across the country, including in the Oklahoma cities of Tulsa and Edmond.
According to a post on X , the text message to one Tulsan read:
“Greetings (individual’s name), You have been selected to pick cotton at the Oklahoma Tulsa Cotton Plantation. Be ready at 5AM SHARP, Thursday November 7 with your belongings. Our Trump Executives 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 B.”
The individual who received the text in Tulsa is the granddaughter of a descendent of Black Wall Street business owners and a Greenwood genealogist, according to a post from Black Wall Street Times editor Deon Devon Osborne.
A spokesperson for the Tulsa Police Department said the department had not received any reports regarding the text messages.
A student at Edmond Public Schools received a similar message, according to a mother’s post on Facebook. The school district told The Oklahoman it has not been contacted about the incident, nor heard about it happening to any other students. The Edmond Police Department said it has not received any reports about the text messages.