refugee, IDP, evacuee

[sagehen]

>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
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Sorry, I can't remember that.  My impression is that I didn't hear about
the Black Caucus press conference until later, either, but that might well
have been in a news recap, so its actual timing  could  have been earlier.
AM