A Rose by any other name...

Lame, overused title...but:

ref●u●gee \,fer-yoo-‘jē\ n: 1. one that flees 2. one who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.

evac●u●ee \,ē-vak-yoo-‘wē\ n: an evacuated person.

Tell me what the difference is between these two words and the people in New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama. Both apply. Especially in the case of New Orleans. You had two types of people: people who got the fuck up out of Dodge and those who stayed behind and had to be carried out.

“We don’t like to be called ‘refugee’, because it’s derogatory.”

Why? What makes ‘refugee’ a derogatory word? You ran from a mother-fucker of a storm that donkey-punched your city. You fled from danger. It wasn’t political, but you still fled.

I think “refugee” should be used in this case because it sounds much more serious than “evacuee.” People should be looking at this as a demoralizing situation that never should have happened in this country. Calling these people “evacuees” makes it sound like they were ferried around on the backs of fire trucks for a couple of blocks, instead of stuck in the Sauna-dome and on roof-tops for a week.

You know why these people don’t want to be labeled as “refugees”? Because white middle and upper class reporters called them that. So, naturally, when whitey calls a group of more than 3 blacks a name, it’s derogatory.

“But Kyu, some of these evacuees were white.”

Yeah, and how many of them bitched about it?

I’m sorry you lived in a pool. I’m sorry that you were poor. I’m sorry you lived in an area with no jobs. I’m sorry that you spent your government check on smokes and liquor and couldn’t afford to buy a bus ticket for you and your twelve kids. I’m sorry that none of your neighbors, who did get out, offered you a ride. I’m sorry that your elected officials sat on their hands for the last few decades.

Here’s some derogatory words that applied to a lot of the people who still complain about the word ‘refugee’:

Apathetic, larcenous, egocentric, sadistic, ignorant, rapacious, mobbish, treacherous, miotic, self-serving, non-genuine, drivellers, society-leach, pedophilic, separatistic, rapists.