What's in a name?

The good people of Bangladesh (you may know them from "massive floods every other day") have offered us a million bucks in aid.

How about that?

Some people are taking offense at the term "refugee."

My thoughts: WHAT THE FUCK???

Here's the first definition of refugee from google: "an exile who flees for safety."

HELLO PEOPLE OF EARTH!

I CANNOT GO HOME!

I HAVE FLED FOR MY SAFETY!

DUH!

Got that?

I am PROUD to call myself a refugee. We are refugees, in every sense of the word. Who could be offended by that? We are a people, from a place, and we cannot live in our homes.

I am a refugee, bitches. I cannot be called anything else. I was NOT evacuated. NOBODY knows that I am gone. I left because Mayor Nagin told me to go.

No soldiers showed up at my door telling me that I should leave. Nobody from the government even cares that I am not in NOLA.

No sir. I am a refugee. I have fled. I did so for my safety.

If you call me a refugee, I know that you understand my situation. I did not want to leave. I have no where to go. My greatest desire is to return home.