The FBI and the FCC have weighed in on the messages that multiple Black people across the country received on Wednesday.

Black people in states including Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania reported receiving the text messages. The messages started arriving in recent days, w

Stick to the Script Across the United States, Black Americans are getting horrible text messages telling them that they're going to be enslaved under Donald Trump's second presidency. As CBS News reports,

One of the text messages was sent to Jacksonville resident Charmaine Green’s 15-year-old son. She told Action News Jax she had just been reading reports of the racist texts being sent in other parts of the country when her son showed her his phone and revealed he’d received one too.

Denver resident Jirah Lawrence says she was stunned to see the text message she received last Wednesday. Dozens of Black people across the U.S. received a similar message on their phones in the days after the election.

Several teenagers and college students in 24 states have reportedly received many racist text messages telling them that they have been selected to "pick cotton" at a plantation