refugee, IDP, evacuee

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:17:09 -0400, sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:

>>I hadn't heard of any "refugee" objecting to the word before the
>>televised statement of the African American members of Congress went
>>out last week.
>>
>>If the Rev. Jackson said that "refugee" implies/ means "criminal," the
>>objections become even more ludicrous. I hadn't heard that, either.
>>
>My first hearing of "refugee" was in an interview on NPR with a person so
>designated, and she was objecting to the term for herself and the others
>with her.  The Jesse Jackson echo came later, if the timing of these
>broadcasts was in proper order.

The Congressional Black Caucus started complaining about "refugee" in a
press conference on Friday morning (Sep. 2). When was the NPR interview?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/02/lt.01.html


--Ben Zimmer