Okay, so recently, maybe it's the war on drugs that morph into a war on black and brown

people or war on terror that morph into a war on black and brown people perhaps locking

kids in cages that morph into what you look I don't know which straw broke the camel's

back but it felt like all of a sudden friends of mine dear friends from different parts of

my life started looking in earnest to relocate away from the United States to take their kids

and live somewhere else somewhere they didn't have to carry so heavy a burden of racism

or oppression of fear of economic insecurity instead of talking a big game about how they were

going to move someday they just left started scattering to foreign shores sending about cheery

Facebook messages and actual postcards and for a long while I thought it was just my circle because

my friends are all strange wacky people but it turns out that this thing this thing is far

bigger than my tiny band of misfits so today on snap judgment we proudly present in search

of a black utopia a search for a better life perhaps much closer than you imagine please

make sure your seat backs and trade tables are in their full upright positions and all carry on

luggage is stowed under the seat and firm you why because you're listening to snap judgment

now that former snapper Adiza Igan once a snapper always a snapper she's doing big things now

for vice news reports which takes you into the story as it unfolds and Adiza

Adiza too she's been hearing these rumblings about people taking off leaving the US of they

but instead of simply waving farewell Adiza she decided to investigate this moment

by taking a trip of her own and I want to give a bit of a language warning this story has black folk

talking about their actual experience the inward and other real people language does come up

Adiza take it away

so last summer over labor day weekend I was mining my business at home when I got a text for my sister

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