Here we go again: Let the race hysteria begin.
Racist texts are apparently circulating to black Americans in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday, and all the usual suspects are clutching their pearls.
“You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation starting 11/07/2024. Please Be ready at 8am SHARP! with your belongings. Our executive slave catchers [will] pick you up in a brown van, be prepared to be searched once you’ve entered the plantation. You are in Plantation group 7,” reads one of the texts, obtained by CNN. CNN reported various instances where children and college students were targeted with similar messages from unknown numbers, while some working professionals received the texts as well.
Look, it’s obviously distasteful and “racist” in the literal sense. But it’s something that, if Dave Chapelle did a sketch on in the aughts, black and white America both would have laughed right along. And while it’s different that this is happening in the real world, the idea that there’s anything “real” about this almost beggars belief. Just ask Jussie Smollett, Bubba Wallace or anyone else involved in the countless hate crime hoaxes over the past decade. (Watch the Daily Caller’s original documentary “Demand for Hate”)
FBI Statement on Offensive and Racist Text Messageshttps://t.co/vpQYAO6LT7 pic.twitter.com/iDtN36WhX4
— FBI (@FBI) November 7, 2024
That hasn’t stopped the FBI from jumping in to waste more federal resources. “The FBI is aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter,” the agency said in a statement.
It certainly hasn’t stopped CNN (and the rest of the corporate media) from crafting a narrative on the “broader implications” of “hate-filled rhetoric,” as though these spoof texts were the equivalent of a Klan rally.
But it’s NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson who revealed what the hysteria is really all about. “The unfortunate reality of electing a president who, historically, has embraced and at times encouraged hate, is unfolding before our eyes,” he said in a statement. “These messages represent an alarming increase in vile and abhorrent rhetoric from racist groups across the country, who now feel emboldened to spread hate and stoke the flames of fear that many of us are feeling after Tuesday’s election results.”
Yes, here we are again: Trump’s rhetoric leads to hate and division and violence and blah blah blah. T-Minus 48 hours before they likely all wind up with egg on their face because, as even CNN admits, no one knows where the texts are coming from. The worst case scenario is that the texts are “real” — meaning they’re from some type of racist organization — and that the FBI (you know, the organization meant to keep us safe from terrorist attacks and other violent crime) is wasting time and resources to investigate some genuinely mean texts. The horror!
What the “investigation” is most likely to turn up, however, is either teens pranking each other in a crude manner (as teens of all colors have always done) — or a left-wing activist group perpetrating a hoax precisely to elicit the response we’re seeing. It could be a mix of both, a viral phenomenon bubbling up organically and unorganized through social media. Yet it would be insane to think that the Trump campaign, or any affiliated Republican group, would be behind this, especially in the wake of their landslide electoral victory this week. Why throw it all away now?
It’s just a bad indicator that the media, the FBI, racial grievance groups — they’ve all learned nothing. Every little thing the next four years is going to once again be whipped into a national story, whether it’s true or not. Once this latest probable-hoax gets debunked, they’ll just move onto the next one. The demand for hate has always outstripped the supply, and now they’re going to be more desperate than ever. Luckily, it now seems that the American people are less likely than ever to fall for it.
