ORANGE, CT (WFSB) – Anonymous racist texts are being sent to Black Americans in Connecticut.

Several people in the state received a text message this week saying they had been selected as domestic slaves on a plantation.

Other texts across the country mention people picking cotton.

Whoever is behind this uses specific names and addresses in the texts, pretending that the farms are plantations.

An Orange farm has been drawn into these worrying messages.

The Nelson family received a text message yesterday informing their eighth-grade daughter that she had been selected to be a house slave. He was asked to report to a farm in Orange tomorrow.

Other texts told recipients to go to the farm with all their belongings and that they would be searched upon arrival.

Latasha Nelson said, “My daughter came down and showed me, you know, I was like, wait a minute. I was angry and disgusted too.

Bloomfield students received a similar text.

The City of Bloomfield and the School Board said they are deeply troubled by this racist language which violates their core values ​​of respect, inclusion and equality.

The FBI is investigating these messages.

“Whoever is responsible for this did real research, not in listing targets, but in crafting a message with information that made it seem real,” said retired FBI special agent Kenneth Gray. .

The Orange family that owns the farm said they had no idea what happened. They said they were distraught and felt very bad that people had received these texts with their names attached in some way.

Farm owners also said they hope the FBI and Justice Department can hold whoever is behind the case accountable.

Some of these texts were sent through a service called TextNow. This platform allows people to send text messages without using a real phone number.

TextNow said that after learning of these incidents, it closed the necessary accounts.

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