Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies.
Summary
Racist text messages invoking slavery were anonymously sent to Black individuals across several U.S. states, sparking investigations by the FBI, FCC, and local law enforcement.
The messages, received in states like New York, Alabama, and California, varied in wording but shared a disturbing tone, with some directing recipients to report to specific locations.
Civil rights groups, including the NAACP and Southern Poverty Law Center, condemned the messages, calling them deeply disturbing and perpetuating a legacy of evil.
Wireless providers are working to block the messages, which officials believe could be the work of bots or malicious actors.
I think it's important to point out that this is more terrifying than it looks on the face of it. Think about it for a minute. Mass text messages going out in multiple Municipal areas harassing women of color. This ain't your grandpappies racists. Your Average bigoted Yokel doesn't have access to the technology to do that or the information to do that. And seeing as the FBI is on the table to be gutted soon. I don't expect much from the investigation. And even if something comes out and they try to claim it is a single isolated person with administrator access at one of the major carriers. I would consider them more Patsy than anything. That a company would play fast and loose with that kind of access and data. Is a company that shouldn't be allowed to exist. This should be a wake-up call to everyone to get their privacy fucking sorted. The Gestapo is watching.
Trump is a symptom. Don't get me wrong, the sooner he succumbs to his decades long suicide-by-cheeseburger the better, but shit isn't going to get better once he finally fucks off.
After seeing him in action for 4 years and hearing all the Nazi shit he's said since, the average voter decided they like him even more than they did the first time - they fucking love that evil shit, and that's the problem. When Trump is gone, some other evil fucker will step into the spotlight and the 73 million Nazis that voted to burn our country down will just focus their support over to the new guy.
And it's not going away with boomers or any other generation either. I had high hopes for Z, but it turns out a lot of them are little Nazis too.
Humans are trash, and we'll continue to live in a dumpster until we're extinct.
There’ll be no shortage of those once they start rounding up the democrats (to include anything else that isn’t the ‘true republican’), the LGBTQ+, and non(‘correct version’ of)christians. Oh, and minorities.
We saw an uptick in this sort of bullshit back in 2016, too. Racists and bigots feel emboldened under Trump. Get ready for more targeted harassment like this, and for nothing to be done about it.
Call me melodramatic, but I'm honestly surprised there aren't roving bands of armed white dudes with trucker hats and wrap-around sunglasses in every neighborhood at this point. Maybe Jan 21, but I won't be alive to know.
Giving up gives them power, and leaves others behind who you could help. Yeah, it sucks he won, but it's not over. Don't let them take everything for free.
Thats not mentioning there are certainly people who care about you in the world. You may not even understand what you mean to them.
If you're contemplating suicide over this, seek help. It's not worth it.
988 is the national suicide prevention hotline and it is going 24 hours a day. But even if you won't call it, let me tell you a story. It is a story I have never told before and only the people who were there know it happened:
10 years ago, I was diagnosed with atypical trigeminal neuralgia. It is known as the suicide disease because of the intensity of the pain. I was also on various opioid medications that a doctor was putting me on in the hopes of helping me (none did) and I apparently have some sort of reaction to opioids that makes me pretty psychotic if I take them for more than a week.
Anyway, I got in a big fight with my mother while I was visiting her and I decided to hang myself.
I won't go into the specific details, but let's say that I was saved by a light fixture that was not very well anchored to the ceiling.
And almost every day since then I have regretted it. No matter how bad things have gotten, I realized all the people who would have been hurt by me doing it and I have yet to get over that guilt. Maybe I never will.
I firmly believe that there is no afterlife. This is all we've got. Do not check out early even if it's hard now. It might not be as hard later. Eventually I found the right medication and I am not in the severe pain I used to be in most of the time.
Meanwhile, now I'm dealing with another major illness and again, it's been really hard. But this time I'm sticking with it and I'm going to get better.
Similarly, I had a plan before Trump won in case he did and now it's being put into action. It's not too late for you to make one. One that doesn't involve what you're thinking of doing.