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The water buffalo incident was a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, in which student Eden Jacobowitz was charged with violating the university's racial harassment policy.
The incident occurred when Jacobowitz shouted, "Shut up, you water buffalo," out his window to a crowd of mostly black Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters creating a ruckus outside his dorm. Others had shouted at the crowd, including several who shouted racial epithets, but Jacobowitz was the only one charged.
Jacobowitz's initial advisor was assigned to him by the University and urged him to accept its offer of a settlement. The settlement required him to admit to violating the racial harassment policy. He refused and retained another advisor, history professor Alan Charles Kors.
Jacobowitz explained his choice of "water buffalo" as from Hebrew slang, "Behema," used by Jews to refer to a loud, rowdy person. He procured several expert witnesses who attested to this and others, such as Michael Meyers, who gave testimonies that "water buffalo" was not a racial epithet against African Americans.
Jacobowitz's story was brought to the fore by the media focus on Penn and on April 23, several days before his hearing, the New York-based Jewish Daily Forward broke his story with the headline "Pennsylvania Preparing to Buffalo a Yeshiva Boy" The story gained even wider media coverage after the Wall Street Journal picked up the story with an editorial entitled "Buffaloed at Penn." Jacobowitz was interviewed on television several times.
Based on testimony that Jacobowitz had called the women "water buffalo" and the university's belief that this was a racial epithet, they proceeded with prosecuting him.
black-hole is racist
.Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections has become a black hole because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office. .
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud Excuse me! He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a white hole. That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
I cannot believe that Judge Thomas asked the commissioner for an apology. What is going on in this country? We have people singing alternate national anthems and now common scientific terms are racist. Jesse Jackson is even mad at Senator Obama because hes apparently not black enough. People who see everything through the prism of race have a disease.
You didn't indicate which of those people got fired.