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Hackney allowed Robin Read, a Penn administrator at the school's Judicial Inquiry Office, to perpetuate a near witch-hunt--despite the fact that Penn professors and others in the community rushed to Jacobowitz's defense. Read determined herself that Jacobowitz's remark was a racial slur because water buffalo are black animals native to Africa; in fact, they are endemic to South Asia. Regardless, the last time we checked, the rule was "innocent until proven guilty." Then again, this isn't about the Constitution...
Charge of racial slur ("water buffaloes") dropped at Penn...
Invoking the school's speech codes, the sorority members filed a charge of racial harassment against Jacobowitz, reasoning that "water buffalo" is a racial slur. Up until this point, both sides' idiotic behavior--the shouting and the charging of Jacobowitz--could be dismissed as overzealous love of study and complaint, respectively...
...subscription to Ranger Rick having long since lapsed, Read reasoned that the use of the term "water buffalo" was meant as a racial slur since a water buffalo is "a large black animal that lives in Africa." Pity for Read that water buffalo are found in Asia and not Africa...
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...