The messages might be frightening if they weren’t so ludicrous. Black Americans all over the country have been receiving text messages telling them to prepare to be enslaved, and instead of shrugging them off as a silly prank, some are professing to be both outraged and traumatized at this new demonstration of the evils of a man who certainly had nothing to do with these texts (yeah, you guessed it, Donald J. Trump) and his supporters. One of the foremost of our visionary leaders who is enraged over this is a man who might end up being speaker of the House before all this is through: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Righteous Indignation).
In a fine froth, Jeffries wrote on X on Friday morning: “Racist, vile and threatening text messages are being sent to young African-Americans throughout the country, including on college campuses. There are extremists in America who feel empowered. We will not be intimidated by anyone.” Who did Jeffries have in mind? Let’s see: which “extremists in America” have felt “empowered” in the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection to the presidency?
The correct answer is “none at all,” but in the mind of Jeffries and his fellow leftists everywhere, what Old Joe Biden said in his infamous red-and-black speech of Sept. 1, 2022 is absolutely true: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
And now those MAGA “extremists” are feeling “empowered” by Trump’s victory, so the cruel and fascistic louts decided to have a little fun at the expense of unsuspecting African-Americans. One of the text messages stated (spelling and grammar as in the original): “You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 1:00 pm SHARP with your belongings. Our Executive Slaves will come get you in a Brown Van, be prepared to be searched down once you’ve enter the plantation. You are in Plantation Group C. good day”
— JJ (@playamadeJJ) November 6, 2024
Another made the connection with the man who is being blamed explicit: “MORNING NEGRO BREED As you know Donald J Trump has won the election, with that being said you have been selected to perform in SECTION 487 at George Pickett cotton picking plantation, you must report 7am sharp, everything you need will be provided, if not you will receive 20 lashes from your new Master: Braxton Wright. Toodles Ni**er.”
It's hard to imagine anyone taking this seriously. Plantation? Executive Slaves? George Pickett cotton picking plantation? This was a painfully obvious stitch-up, but nevertheless, one recipient of one of these messages called it “alarming,” and another said: “I am overwhelmed with anxiety and fear about how I am going to help my children make sense of the world that they have to navigate as black children.” A third recipient lamented: “I wasn’t in slavery. My mother wasn’t in slavery. But we’re a couple of generations away. So, when you think about how brutal and awful slavery was for our people, it’s awful and concerning.”
Only a couple of generations away? A generation is generally considered to be twenty to thirty years long. We’re 159 years from slavery, so we’re actually over five generations away even by the most generous reckoning. But I know, I shouldn't let rationality intrude here. After all, the hysteria was everywhere. Margaret Huang of the left’s vile smear, libel and defamation machine, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) hate group, called the messages a “public spectacle of hatred and racism that makes a mockery of our civil rights history…Leaders at all levels must condemn anti-Black racism, in any form, whenever we see it.”
NAACP President Derrick Johnson said: “The threat — and the mention of slavery in 2024 — is not only deeply disturbing, but perpetuates a legacy of evil that dates back to before the Jim Crow era, and now seeks to prevent Black Americans from enjoying the same freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.” The attorneys general of North Carolina and Louisiana also condemned the messages, and the FBI is looking into them.
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Now, seriously, what do you think the odds are that when the feds catch up with the clowns who sent these messages, that they don’t turn out to be “MAGA extremists” at all? I’d venture to guess that the odds that Trump supporters sent these messages are roughly around ten trillion to one.
Black patriot Deon Joseph made a pointed observation: “Folks. For those concerned about Black people getting racist texts, before you freak out, ask your self, who would have the phone numbers of Black people? Democrat election workers. You know. Those folks who were texting you to vote for Harris or other liberals. Or could it be from out of the country like with the Haitian threats. @RepJeffries, before you start fear mongering, why don’t you investigate first. Just a theory I have. Stop with the divisiveness. America is tired of it and your solution is to double down on it? Wow. It’s not going to work.”
Supporting Joseph’s point is the fact that the left, and only the left, is obsessed with slavery and treats it as if it is a live idea in American politics. Remember back in 2012, when Slightly Less Old Joe Biden warned a black audience that if Mitt Romney was elected president, “They're going to put y'all back in chains.”
These messages are just a variant of the same threat. But if the leftist FBI finds the leftists behind the messages, will they come clean about the identity of the culprits?
