"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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We booked our first refugees at the Inn yesterday --

Ya gotta watch more CNN, Jay.

The African-American leaders and the US government are very adamant about
NOT calling the displaced persons as "refugees", but insist on "evacuee", or
some such word.

They seem to feel that "refugee" somehow diminishes the status of these
people.

I am wondering, however, that if that is so, then why is it okay to call the
Sri Lankan, Thai (and other displacements of natural and man-made disasters)
as "refugees"?

Does that not diminish *their* status?