Racist text messages summoning Black individuals to "pick cotton" have been sent out to residents across the country, including in Texas, in the wake of the presidential election. Houston area resident Laura Bass Brown told KHOU 11 her daughter,

The racist text messages were sent to Black men and women across several states and told them they had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.”

Black people from states including Maryland, New Jersey, Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, New York, and South Carolina detail incidents where they received racist messages,