One woman’s thoughts on an influx of travelers making certain destinations popular has sparked a heated debate all across social media.
“Turks and Caicos lost its exclusivity to the point where I’m not pressed to go anymore. Please take me to St. Barts,” tweeted X user @mlssbbm on Tuesday, April 23.
She then went on to say that due to being well-traveled at a young age, she has a different view on the type of vacation spots she chooses to frequent.
The post has garnered more than 1 million views and hundreds of reposts over the course of several hours. While there were some who agreed with her sentiments, an overwhelming majority of social media users chimed in, saying her comments on a destination losing exclusivity was code for there being “too many Black people.”
“Why when black people start going places, y’all start saying it’s losing value,” asked one X user. “I don’t like that. Now y’all don’t want to go to Turks and Caicos cause people going?”
“Yall are no different than racist whites who think the poor don’t deserve to have fun … youre literally only saying this because Black people can afford to go its so weird to me yall be wanting to be the only negros to experience happiness like its an EXCLUSIVE feeling,” another X user remarked.
“It’s always funny to watch *some* Black people assume that a place loses its luster because other Black people go there,” said another commenter. “The same conversations were had about Tulum, Miami, and a host of others not too long ago.”
