November 10, 2024
The mayor of St. Louis and her son were among the people receiving that hateful text about slave masters being ready to pick them up and take them to the cotton fields.
The text is breathtaking in its cruelty. My initial reaction was disgust, followed by a strong desire to find a bunch of people and slap them silly. I’d like to think it’s “foreign bad actors”, but I’m not so sure, which is terribly sad.
My later reaction was to wonder what data the senders are mining in order to know whom to send the texts to. When we enter information “For Research Purposes Only”, is that the source of the information they’re using?
If it is for research, the research is probably going to take a hit soon. I’ll bet that many people will hit “Prefer not to say” on the Ethnicity question from now on.
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