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I believe it was the Revvvvv-errrrr-rend Jack-huh-son who started this debate with remarks that he made yesterday on MSNBC. Once again being part of the problem instead of the solution.

BD,
It seems to me, that sometimes you are more busy with putting things that America does down... was why I asked.
Like I said it seems that way....my apologies.
The question aggravated me and seemed trivial because so many people are in such dire and uncomprhendable situation. Whole cities have been destroyed.... families no doubt totally wiped out...and erased as if they never were....all of the suffering going on and yet to come and someone wants to ask what to call these people.

I really have not had any problems with what to call the people....I don't really think the ones in dire need really care what they are called at this point in time...like I said...I don't see it as an issue.

If you want the media to be more correct in what they call them...ok I can agree with that point .... but look at the media and what they are doing going around asking questions generally interfering, instead of helping out...granted that some reorters have given botles of water to a few victims here and there.
Giving people false hope when a helicopter goes over or is heard. Granted that some of the news helo crews have called into somewhere and let them know where survivors were located.

But back to the point... with the main thing being...
What have we called the people that survived and lived through the previous devastating hurricanes or other disasters? Why is it an issue of what to call these

Someone mentioned how do we know all of them were Americans? Good and valid point....though as of yet ( granted it is still confused and early into this) I have not seen mention of any countries having lixsted anyone missing..

bravedave wrote:btw - I do not see "refugee" as being racially loaded.
I also never knew the definition of refugee was so specific (and it might not be).

If it weren't for the fact that folks were already feeling a little disenfranchised because of the laggard response time, I don't think it would have been loaded at all. But in context, referring to them by a term used to describe people displaced by political conflict to another country, it merely added fuel to the fire.

Homeless? Displaced? Whatever you wanna call these folks... they're simply Americans who have been re-located due to losing their homes from a very nasty hurricane.

If they was swamp rats working on the loading docks and fled would that make em "Portugese?

ToplessRideFL wrote:ref·u·geeFunction: noun
:an individual seeking refuge or asylum; especially : an individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or unable to return to it because of persecution or fear of persecution (as because of race, religion, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion)

Keep scrolling down in the definition:

refugee
n : an exile who flees for safety

exile
n. 1: voluntarily absent from home or country

n. 1.
1. Enforced removal from one's native country.
2. Self-imposed absence from one's country.
2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
3. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.

capnrick wrote:If they was swamp rats working on the loading docks and fled would that make em "Portugese?

What is up with that?? Is that an attempt at a joke.. or a slur??