Borders Between Us

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. had a complicated relationship with his mother. But after she passed, he traveled across the world to try and make things better.

This story comes fromTransom.org and was produced by Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. and Jay Allison

Additional production by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Special thanks to Kadijatu Suma, Haja Suma, Fatima Rahman, Alimamy Conteh, Sheri Rickson, Lynn Levy and Gimlet Media. Thomas King, Brima Thomas, and Jartu Tejan-Thomas. Thanks also to Milo, Mason and Melissa Allison, Viki Merrick, Samantha Broun, Sydney Lewis, Rob Rosenthal, and WCAI and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole Massachusetts.

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0:00.0	Snap Judgment Studios
0:10.5	Snapers, do you know at one point?
0:14.3	I got a call from the power set B saying Snap was canceled.
0:19.2	That was a very, very, no good, very bad day, but I realized
0:25.6	that the power set B didn't own this show.
0:29.2	You own this show Snap is. That's why I'm asking you to support it.
0:33.8	Right now at a level that makes sense for you at snapjudgment.org.
0:38.9	If you've ever been unable to get out of the car, the kitchen, the office,
0:43.2	until you heard the end of the story, please become one of us and support this show that makes it happen.
0:50.0	That Snap Judgment.org because it doesn't happen any other way.
0:55.9	You can get Snap stuff, including music, a chance to pitch your story or backstage pass to
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1:17.2	Snap Judgment.org. I promise you the best sleep ever and a grin on your face when you leap out
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1:41.7	When I look back and I think about the most hurtful things I've ever said,
1:46.2	I was always. These things erupted not when I was feeling strong,
1:52.1	powerful. What I was feeling weak, the minute. It still knew I held one final weapon,
2:02.1	one small piece of power, my words.
2:16.7	With the Dan Snap Judgment, I've got a whole episode about the power of words,
2:22.0	we're calling it borders between us. I want to begin with the story, a personal story,
2:27.9	a Saeed T. John Thomas Jr. He's a poet, a writer and radio producer living in New York City.
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