The ACLjew. The "Jewish Community Relations Council". The only ones who seem to be objecting to this generous gift are jews. Jews demand that Whites accept blacks and other non-whites as their equals.

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 [color="Red"][Discredited? By whom?] 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.

Community activists and civil-rights organizations are criticizing Auburn's leaders for accepting the gift's terms that the park carry the Shockley name, and they are demanding that the town keep Mr. Shockley's name off the park or give the land back. "I cannot fathom how officials in Auburn would have the gall to name an area park after a white supremacist and think that would be readily accepted by residents," said Barry Broad, chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Sacramento.

Officials in Auburn, a town of about 13,000 that is more than 90% white, said they didn't know about Mr. Shockley's eugenics ties at the time of the gift -- and don't support them -- but still plan to go ahead with the park.

Eugenics was once a more acceptable philosophy among leading minds, said Tony Platt, professor emeritus of social work at California State University, Sacramento, who has researched the matter. "The people who believed in this were not backwater cranks," Mr. Platt said. "They were highly respectable elite members of society that were proud of their views and promoted them."

From the late 1960s until his death, Mr. Shockley publicly pushed his belief that there was a strong genetic component to intelligence that forms along lines of race. He also suggested that some people of below-average IQ be paid if they agreed to voluntary sterilization.

During a 1974 television interview, he gave what he called his "standard statement" to a questioner who asked if he thought blacks were of inferior intelligence: "The major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in environment." In the segment, viewable on YouTube, he denied being a racist.

The Shockley trust bequeathed the land, with $50,000 for upkeep, on the condition that the park be named "Nobel Laureate William B. Shockley and his wife Emmy L. Shockley Memorial Park." The city council wasn't aware of Mr. Shockley's theories on race and genetics, said Mike Holmes, a council member and Auburn's mayor. The city's recreation board, which oversees parks, voted to accept the land in March.

Then the Auburn Journal newspaper reported on Mr. Shockley's race rhetoric. Mr. Broad, the activist, began urging Auburn's mayor and city council members to give the land back. The American Civil Liberties Union helped organize a letter-writing campaign to inform local business leaders about Mr. Shockley's statements on race and eugenics.

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