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The FBI said it was successful interaction with the US Justice Department and different national authorities astir the offensive. (File photo)
The NAACP civilian rights radical and the White House condemned racist substance messages referencing slavery that were sent anonymously to Black Americans this week arsenic a contentious US predetermination drew to a adjacent successful the United States. The messages urged recipients successful aggregate states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, to study to a plantation to prime cotton, the NAACP said connected Thursday.
The connection is an violative notation to past enslavement of Black radical successful the United States.
High schoolhouse and assemblage students were among the recipients, the Associated Press reported. Some schoolhouse districts warned students astir the racist messages and urged them to study immoderate specified texts received to schoolhouse unit oregon section authorities.
Federal and authorities authorities were investigating, the White House said connected Friday. The FBI said it was successful interaction with the US Justice Department and different national authorities astir the offensive, racist messages. “These actions are not normal. And we garbage to fto them beryllium normalized,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said successful a connection from the organization, which advocates for radical justness and rights for Black Americans.
Johnson said the messages were a reflection of Republican Donald Trump’s statesmanlike predetermination triumph implicit Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, connected Tuesday, which sent shockwaves done Black American communities.
Many Black Americans accidental they expect a rollback of civilian rights aft Trump pledged to extremity national diverseness and inclusion programs.
A spokesperson for the president-elect did not instantly respond to requests for remark connected Thursday and Friday. The president-elect denies helium is racist and has said his economical docket volition payment each Americans.
An exit poll conducted by Edison Research connected Election Day showed Harris winning 85% of the Black ballot nationwide portion Trump won 13%, up 1 percent constituent from a exit canvass successful 2020 erstwhile helium mislaid to Joe Biden.
“We powerfully condemn these hateful messages and anyone targeting Americans based connected their ethnicity oregon background,” Robyn Patterson, a White House spokesperson for President Joe Biden said successful a connection connected Friday.
“Racism has nary spot successful our country. Period.”
The run-up to Tuesday’s predetermination included the biggest emergence successful US governmental unit since the 1970s, including immoderate racist attacks connected Harris supporters, according to cases identified by Reuters.
Harris, the archetypal pistillate of colour astatine the apical of a large enactment ticket, besides faced idiosyncratic attacks, including by Trump, implicit her contention and gender.
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