JANSING: “Jonathan, there was a woman who told NBC she sees these texts as a scare tactic, but that it’s working. I’ve seen videos of people on social media, people who did not get texts, but who are breaking down in tears, who are talking as the woman who’s soundly played, are thinking about how they are going to explain what’s going on to their kids. Tell me what’s going on here as you see it.”

CAPEHART: “Well, you know, on election night on PBS, after it became clear that Donald Trump was on his way to the presidency, that I said that I was concerned on multiple levels. And the first level I said was I was concerned as an African-American. And I was concerned as an African-American because of the rhetoric used by Donald Trump on the campaign trail, saying that he wanted to let police have a — you know, some sort of day of rage where they can get the crime situation under control in various cities. Well, the dog whistle there is that he’s going to go after black people. And so to see that these text messages were going out the day after he becomes president-elect just feeds into the fear and concern that a lot of African-Americans have about what is to come. And Chris, what is especially pernicious about this text messaging campaign is that some messages just said something like greetings. Other messages said greetings and the person’s name. And so how did they get the person’s name? How did they get the person’s cell phone number? Where did they get this information to target specific people and now to target specific people in multiple states across the country? You know, I know we’re in this moment where we’re trying to come to grips with what just — with what just happened, but I don’t think we — anyone, particularly those of us in our profession, and I’m not saying that we’re doing that here, I’m just you know, doing a shot across the bow to others to not downplay the concern and the legitimate fears, particularly people of color and especially black people have as a result of the — the election of Donald Trump to another term in the White House.”