It is unclear who is behind the mass text messages, what motivated them or how they obtained phone numbers for swaths of Black people ... m glad we could play a small part in preventing any ...

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

Racist text messages are being sent to Black Americans in Ohio and around the nation, telling them they're selected to be enslaved and assigned to pick cotton on a plantation.