Word: jacobowitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EDEN JACOBOWITZ...
Maybe Read had a premonition that the geographic distribution of water buffalo would not back up her wildly inaccurate flailings, for she offered Jacobowitz a deal: He could conduct a racial sensitivity session or he could face trial and clear his name--or get himself expelled...
...choosing a trial, Jacobowitz, an eighteen-year-old first-yeardisplayed a degree of courage that was not to be found in the president's office of one of the nation's most prestigious universities...
Fortunately, those charged with the pursuit of truth in Philiadelphia came to Jacobowitz's aid. Dr. Elijah Anderson, a sociology professor and expert on Black culture submitted that he had never heard "water buffalo" used as a slur. The director of Penn's Afro-American studies program also agreed that "water buffalo" was not a epithet he was familiar with...
Professor Dan Ben-Amos, an expert in Black culture and a linguistics expert, corroborated Jacobowitz's contention that "water buffalo" was a derivation of the Yiddish word "behema" which means "water oxen" and is slang for a "stupid person" or "fool...