Posted on 09/08/2005 7:52:48 AM PDT by thebiggestdog
With all the tragedy surrounding the events of hurricane katrina, you would think that somebody like Jesse Jackson would put their nose to the grindstone and help out people in need. Not Jesse.
According to the Reverend Jackson, "It is racist to call American citizens refugees." According to the dictionary I use, the definition of a refugee is "an exile who flees for safety." Its bad enough that Jesse feels like politicizing a catastrophe, but he is not alone. Several memeber of the Congressional Black Caucus have also come out to say that refugee is not an appropriate term for black people who left their homes for safety.
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Actually I don't think refugee is the right word either, but not for racial reasons.
Oh No....NTSA!
How many white women do you know named 'Katrina'?
I know one. But I think it's a Russian name, isn't it?
Maybe he would have felt better if it was Ka Treena.
Hurricane K-K-Katrina
I suggest we call them "residentially-challenged", then.
I guess Foreigner was being really racist when they sang about not wanting to live like a refugee.
B/C headsup.
Katrinka. I don't know about the k-less name as far as Russian. But "Katrina" has been around Europe for ages, I'm quite sure.
But we're too busy naming girls "Meredith" and "Bethany" now.
That was Tom Petty, IIRC.
We got somethin' we both know it
We don't talk too much about it
Yeah it ain't no real big secret all the same
Somehow we get around it
Listen it don't really matter to me baby
You believe what you want to believe
You see you don't have to live like a refugee
Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon
Listen it don't make no difference to me baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see you don't have to live like a refugee
Now baby you don't have to live like a refugee
Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lover's been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it's one of those things
You gotta feel to be true
Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom
It don't really matter to me
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see you don't have to live like a refugee
I said you don't have to live like a refugee
You need to brush up on your 70s/80s bands, that was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Whatever and who cares - exactly.
Why so much angst and hand-wringing over every freakin' word we say?
But Foreigner did do "Dirty White Boy," now that is racist.
Sorry, I think every1 sounds like Foreigner!
Which wasn't popular, hence, I don't know it and cannot comment!
Several, in fact, everyone I know named Katrina is white, most of primarily Irish descent.
Thanks; I screwed up again.
*Don't you know by printing out the whole thing you are branding yourself a racist???
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