refugee, IDP, evacuee

Chris Waigl cwaigl at FREE.FR
Mon Sep 5 22:15:53 UTC 2005


I quoted:

>----
>BBC host: Are you saying that proper plans weren't made because uh the
>overwhelming majority of the population is black?
>Jackson: Well, it appears to be some of that but not just that.  Uh it
>could be a combination of racial insensitivity,  ineptitude and
>indifference.  All three are unacceptable.  Uh American has watched for
>
>
                                             ^-- America

>a week now for the most part black people suffering and the abuse of
>language, like  the media refers to blacks taking food as looting,
>whites taking food as finding food. I recall a lot of racial language
>even in the description how people are handling uh their crisis.  The
>media refers to blacks as refugees - we are *not* refugees, we are
>citizens, but not from another country in search of - uh running from
>persecution. We are American citizens, but we're not getting treated
>that way.
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>
>
Chris Waigl
I thought I'd corrected that.



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