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Donor's Views on Race Spark Outcry Over Parkland
Wall Street Journal ^ | 08/31/09 | Bobby White

Posted on 09/01/2009 8:05:50 AM PDT by DFG

AUBURN, Calif. -- This town in the Sierra Nevada foothills accepted the gift of a 28-acre plot from the estate of Nobel laureate William B. Shockley in March. The mostly forested land was to become a community park named after the famous physicist -- co-inventor of the transistor -- and his late wife.

Then the local newspaper pointed out that Mr. Shockley, who died in 1989, was a proponent of eugenics, a widely discredited movement most prominent in the 1920s and '30s that held that intelligence was racially linked -- and that called for sterilizing some Americans who were deemed socially and intellectually unfit.

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KEYWORDS: auburn; shockley

1 posted on 09/01/2009 8:05:50 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

OK, if its a problem, I’ll take the land.


2 posted on 09/01/2009 8:08:34 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: DFG

And so did many democrats at that time IE the very foundation of planned parenthood.


3 posted on 09/01/2009 8:09:14 AM PDT by svcw (Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
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To: DFG

Eugenics is the purpose behind abortion. Odds are the writer is a supporter of abortion though.


4 posted on 09/01/2009 8:16:48 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: DFG

This means they will be shutting down Planned Parenthood, right? I mean, Margaret Sanger was a big believer in eugenics too ...


5 posted on 09/01/2009 8:18:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: svcw
And so did many democrats at that time IE the very foundation of planned parenthood.

And so many democrats still do. Maybe Missus clinton will return her Margaret Sanger Award and renounce Planned Parenthood. Heh. Fat chance.

6 posted on 09/01/2009 8:28:34 AM PDT by Skid Marx
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And it is WORKING!

Blacks make up about 12% of the US population yet have close to 40% off ALL abortions.

But blacks vote 90%+ for liberal democrats anyways... :-(

7 posted on 09/01/2009 8:30:25 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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