refugee, IDP, evacuee
Chris Waigl
cwaigl at FREE.FR
Mon Sep 5 22:15:53 UTC 2005
I quoted:
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>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
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^-- 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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