Don't make me shut it down. I will.

Anyway, I wanted to comment on this: Use of "refugee" is called biased, but I actually find that I simply can't. That's weird... usually I like it when people pushing a political agenda act even more retarded than normal.

Maybe I'm growing up, since this particular instance of idiocy just makes me feel tired.

Thanks for the help Reverend Jackson; it's good to know that in these trying times some people are still able to focus on what's really important.

Oops. I guess I commented.

The text of the article for anyone interested:

Use of 'refugee' is called biased

Term: Most popular way of describing storm victims is seen as racist by some black leaders.

Black leaders and politicians questioning racial disparity in the evacuation of the gulf region are assailing as another example of bias the use of the word refugee to describe those displaced by the storm.

Refugee has become the most popular word to describe the victims of Hurricane Katrina, appearing more times in news reports than other similar words, such as evacuee or survivor, according to a Google news search.

By definition, a refugee is "one who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution," according to the American Heritage Dictionary - and not an appropriate tag for the thousands seeking food and shelter after their homes were destroyed last week, some say.

"The use of the term refugee doesn't benefit anybody," said Richard E. Vatz, a professor of rhetoric and communication at Towson University.

"It's another way of depicting African-Americans as hierarchically low, and I understand why they wouldn't want to be associated with that."

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and Bruce S. Gordon, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, were in Baton Rouge, La., yesterday to keep attention on the plight of the displaced, and both were critical of those labeling them refugees.

"To see them as refugees is to see them as other than Americans," Jackson said, "and that is inaccurate, unfair, and racist."