Even if it doesn't get cold-cold where you live, even if it doesn't snow (much), there are still good reasons to escape winter for an island.

One factor can create distance between the Black American who arrives in a new country and expects some sort of race-specific kinship with immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

Because we’ve endured so much racialized violence and disenfranchisement in the United States, coming to a part of the world where our American status affords us protection from more avert economic injustice may not seem like we’re benefitting from the privileges our white counterparts take for granted back in our home country.