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Summary of Incident & Harm:
On Nov. 6, 2024, Black people across the U.S. began receiving racist text messages invoking the trauma and incredible cruelty of this country鈥檚 history of slavery. These text messages originated from difficult-to-trace phone numbers. No perpetrators have yet been publicly identified. These messages have targeted Black college and high school students along with Black organizers and activists. Those receiving these texts reside largely in the South. Along with a range of allies, the Southern Poverty Law Center is currently investigating this incident.
If you or someone you know has been affected by this incident, or any other, and wish to report it, you may do so through the 人兽性交鈥檚 Report a Hate Incident form.
Whom is this Designed to Support?
This resource offers young people, their families and caregivers, educators and administrators, and other allies and community members with a range of actionable knowledge. Some resources listed below utilize trauma-informed approaches to help you care for yourself and those in your life who are experiencing a range of negative emotions. Some offer strategies for the prevention of radicalization and extremism as well as sustaining support for those who feel targeted by such incidents of hate and extremism. Lastly, some are for those in education institutions who must respond to this incident with evidence-based solutions and best practices for supporting affected individuals, colleagues and others.
Resources
For those in educational settings:
- 聽鈥� Short resource for recognizing and responding to hate and bias incidents.
- 聽鈥� Higher education toolkit that includes guidance across capacities.
- 聽鈥� Guide for K-12 administrators and educators that includes immediate crisis intervention guidance.
- 聽鈥� Short resource for K-12 educators on recognizing trauma and supporting students.
- 聽鈥� Webinar for K-12 educators on understanding trauma.
- 聽鈥� Guide for K-12 educators on responding to hate and bias.
For Families and Communities:
- 10 Ways to Respond When a Hate Crime or Incident Occurs in Your Community聽鈥� Short resource with steps to effectively respond 鈥� and prevent future incidents.
- 聽鈥� Short read on building supportive networks to help young people remain resilient against manipulative, hateful disinformation.
- 聽鈥� A guide for evangelical faith leaders on responding to hate and extremism in their communities.
- Building Resilience & Confronting Risk: A Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Radicalization聽鈥� Guide for primary parents and caregivers.
- Short supplements for educators, for coaches and mentors, for elections and moments of national stress.
- Building Networks & Addressing Harm: A Community Guide to Online Youth Radicalization聽鈥� Guide for trusted adults who are not a child鈥檚 parent/primary caregiver but are part of their broader social network.
- 聽鈥� Short resource for supporting children and youth during crisis events.
- 鈥� Recommendations for discussing the history and legacy of slavery and race, including age-appropriate information to emphasize in conversations.
What are the 人兽性交 & PERIL鈥檚 CARE Centers?
The Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), in strategic partnership with the 人兽性交, has launched an initiative to establish Community Advisory, Resource and Education (CARE) Centers. CARE Centers develop preventative solutions that are upstream from harms, victim- and survivor-centered, and community-based while also advocating for non-carceral responses. CARE Centers provide resources to prevent and counter political and hate-fueled violence.
CARE Centers seek to help build local networks of practitioners and community experts to address community needs and help serve affected and concerned community members. These centers will use a public health approach to preventing radicalization that prioritizes the well-being of communities and addresses harms caused by those holding supremacist ideologies.
To learn more, please visit PERIL at , the 人兽性交 at splcenter.org/peril and . Contact CARE Centers at CARE_Centers@american.edu.
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