In Search of a Black Utopia - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Adizah Eghan noticed an interesting trend on social media: everyone seemed to be living it up in Tulum, Mexico. Some were flocking there to have a good time, while others were seeking something much deeper: they wanted to escape racism and seek refuge with like-minded people. Adizah traveled to Mexico to experience the vibes of Tulum for herself — and also dig into why Black people are seeking refuge in a small fishing town south of Cancun.
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This episode contains explicit language, sensitive listeners please be advised.
Special thanks to Nubia Younge, Patricia Talley, and all those in Tulum!
This episode was produced by Adizah Eghan and edited by Kate Osborn and James T. Green with help from Annie Aviles and Stephanie Kariuki. The original score is by Kyle Murdock.
Snap Classic - Season 17 – Episode 5
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| 0:40.3 | it's such a lovely way to burn. Okay, so recently, maybe there's the war on drugs that morphed into a war on black and brown people or war on terror that morph into a war on black and brown people. |
| 1:09.4 | Perhaps locking kids in cages that morphed into, |
| 1:12.1 | look, I don't know which straw broke the camel's back, but it felt like all of a sudden, |
| 1:18.7 | friends of mine, dear friends from different parts of my life, started looking in earnest to relocate |
| 1:24.8 | away from the United States to take their kids and live somewhere |
| 1:29.3 | else. |
| 1:30.3 | Somewhere they didn't have to carry so heavy a burden of racism, of oppression, of fear, of economic |
| 1:36.3 | insecurity. |
| 1:38.3 | Instead of talking a big game about how they were going to move someday. They just left. |
| 1:46.1 | Started scattering to foreign shores, |
| 1:49.2 | sending back cheery Facebook messages and actual postcards. |
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