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 FBI said yesterday it's looking into "offensive and racist text messages" sent to Black people in at least a dozen states since Wednesday morning. Authorities in several of the states are also investigating the anonymous messages,

Margaret Huang, CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, released a statement on Thursday that called the messages “a public spectacle of hatred and racism that makes a mockery of our civil rights history,” USA Today reported. She called on leaders to “condemn anti-Black racism, in any form, whenever we see it.”