By WVUA 23 Reporter Janiya Patrick Racist text messages from unknown sources were sent out across the country following the presidential election. Some of those sent were sent to black students at The University of Alabama.

Indiana University police have received reports from Bloomington students who are receiving racist text messages that invoke slavery, sent by an unknown person. IUPD was contacted on Wednesday by an IU Bloomington student who received a text message with what they described as “racially-biased content.

Racist, anonymous text messages were sent to Black people across the U.S. telling them to report to a plantation to pick cotton, according to law-enforcement officials and civil-rights leaders. Black people in states including Alabama,

Racist text messages are popping up across the country and have now made their way to central Texas. It's a warning for parents for what might be on their children's phones.