Dr. Who?

[for the ESU]

In the center of Washington, DC is a splendid plaza, replete with dancing fountains, tiled walls, and luxuriant landscaping: Benneker Square. Who was this "Benneker" (who isn't mentioned in any encyclopedia published before 1980), to warrant such an impressive memorial (and four - repeat FOUR! - assorted commemorative stamps of one type or another)? He happened to be a "free person of color" (as manumitted Negroes were called in the 18th and 19th centuries), who published a "cut-and-paste" almanac. It should be born in mind, however, that during this period there were some two thousand assorted almanacs being printed yearly; they were the forerunners of the later magazines. The forerunner of Ebony is accorded a memorial more impressive than that of Divus Roosevelt II, while the greatest American inventor of the 20th century - indeed, one of the most effectual inventors of history! - is an Orwellian "unperson," whose name may be mentioned only in whispers, lest the Diversity-Mongrolians hear one mention the anathematized Dr. William Shockley.
William Brandford Shockley is responsible for the discovery of the germanium-diode, better known as the transistor, for which he was honored (along with two British physicists, who had contributed preparatory work) with the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics. Born in London in 1910 (showing again the manifest unity of Magna Europa), he was raised in California, attending Cal. Tech. and receiving his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1936. After achieving his doctorate, he joined the staff of Bell Laboratories and began the series of experiments that were to lead to the discovery of the transistor. During WWII, he was research director in anti-submarine warfare. After the war, he returned to Bell Labs, then served as visiting professor at Cal. Tech., before briefly assuming the post of deputy director of the Weapons System Evaluations Group of the Dept. of Defense, prior to establishing the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory at Beckman Instruments, and then entering the world of academe at Stanford University in 1958.
Dr. Shockley then was part of academe when the Great Septic Tank (known as "The Civil Rights Movement") overflowed, covering the land with its effluvium. When Earl Warren (who, as Governor of California, uttered not a peep, when Divus Roosevelt II herded American citizens of Japanese ancestry into concentration camps) ruled that a chicken diner was engaged in "inter-state commerce," because cars with out-of-state plates had been seen in the parking lot! (So much for the Constitution!) When "Hanoi Jane" made her infamous trip to North Viet-Nam, for instruction on how to shoot down helicopters filled with American service men. When Negro "activists" held the professors at Cornell hostage, vowing to kill them unless their demands were met. Not only did the Academic Senate at Cornell totally capitulate, but the Negro in charge of this extortion-cum-massacre threat is now a Trustee of Cornell University! When a philandering demagogue, hiding behind a clerical collar, had the misfortune to stop a bullet in Memphis, Tennessee - and immediately became a dusky Moses. (They haven't gotten around to renaming the moon, "Martin Luther King, Jr." - perhaps because there's a Euro footprint on it. And it's there because of Dr. William Bradford Shockley.)
Imagine, if you can, the world without transistors. You wouldn't be reading this, as there would be no PCs, let alone the Internet. No space-probes, no jet travel, no ghetto-blasters, no cellular phones, no ..., no ... Television sets with giant 8-inch screens would be about as far as you'd get (for $4,000) and the largest computer in existence would be 246k, requiring tons of air-conditioning and costing millions - that's just for starters.
Unlike most of the hard-science faculties (there weren't distant relatives of Kunta Kinte in any of their classes!), an intellect as highly developed as William Shockley's was not about to ignore the social chaos outside the ivory tower. Most of his life had been spent outside of academe. He was not a professional recipient of academic welfare. Of course he took exception to absurd mandates that Negroes could not drink from the same water fountain nor use the same swimming pools. (None of that had ever existed in the West - I write this as a third generation Californian - and Shockley was raised in California.) As a scientist, his goal was to discern the what, why and how: the same mind-set that had led him to discover the transistor.
This determination to know - the hallmark of the Euro - brought him into contact with Dr. Jensen of the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Jensen's life's work had been the study of the relationship between "race" and inherent intelligence (if any). He had been in the forefront of devising methods for measuring intelligence - specifically abstract reasoning ability - that we not culture-dependent. (Stanford had long been engaged in methods for measuring intelligence. The standard "I.Q. Test" is known as "The Stanford-Benet Test," and has often been criticized as being culturally dependent.)
Since Herbert Spencer had proposed a hereditary basis, a vast amount of research in Europe and America had been directed toward determining the relative values of heredity and environment. (Finding identical twins, who had been raised in different homes was of prime import. After a century of specialized research, the ratios 75% for heredity and 25% for environment were generally accepted.) Jensen's efforts were focused on inter-racial rather than intra-racial, as had been the case; and to that end, he devoted all the methodology available: psychological, anthropological, and statistical. Dr. Shockley applied all of his cognitive powers in examining and evaluating Dr. Jensen's work.
Given the hysteria, then and now prevailing, Dr. Jensen was reluctant to publish his findings. No such fears impeded Dr. Shockley. He let it be known that on the basis of Dr. Jensen's researches, which he found to be unquestionably sound from every perspective, that the conclusions were irrefutable: On a statistical - and he was most emphatic that the scientific community understand he was referring solely to statistics and not about any individual - the Negro was at least 300,000 years behind the Euro in overall intellectual development, that the High-Culture Oriental (Japanese and Chinese) were slightly higher than the Euro in problem-solving ability, but markedly behind the Euro in problem-recognition faculties. (Sufficient data had not been garnered on members of the Amer-Indian taxon [a term preferable to "race"], because of unwillingness of members of that group to participate, to make any definitive statement.)
The Mongrolians went totally beserk! They demanded Shockley's head on a pike. Unlike the other hapless institutions, however, Dr. Shockley happened to be the foremost member of the hard-sciences faculty at Stanford. When pistols were being held to the heads of literature professors (as was the case at Cornell), the ivory-tower set was rather blasé about it; but Shockley was one of their own, indeed their most renowned. For once they took a hard stand, and Stanford took a hard stand: tenure means exactly that. The frustrated Mongrolians then turned on Dr. Jensen. UCB wasn't Stanford, but it too refused to debase tenure. As a result, the Mongrolians took to "raiding" lectures by Dr. Jensen, even when the audience consisted solely of psychologists and related specialists. Liberal, Jerry Brown-appointed, judges would give the rioters a joke sentence, and gutless UCB refused to expell them, so Dr. Jensen let it be known that in the future, he would not give any public speeches. He would publish his findings and that was all.
Dr. Shockley became an "unperson." Upon his death, no official recognition of his momentous achievement was given any honor whatsoever. Not even a commemorative stamp! "Goodthink" textbooks acknowledged his discovery of the transistor (Who could they ascribe it too: Marilyn Monroe, who was given a commemorative stamp? Bugs Bunny? [ditto]), but were compelled to add that Shockley's last years were "marred" by "racisist comments." (Mongrolian-infested state school-boards determine which text books are purchased. Failure to toe the Mongrolian "party-line" results in unsold books.) In fact, Dr. Shockley was anything but "racist"! The scientific facts being what they are, he advocated more and more intensive schooling for Negroes, who required it, that they might make the greatest contribution possible and not be relegated to a permanent underclass, because of heredity. Of course he strongly opposed debasing the educational system to create a substandard environment, because segments of society could not cope with the curriculum. There are vast numbers of Euros, who cannot cope with it either. Higher education wasn't intended to be universal. It was intended for those able to profit from it: one doesn't break the legs of a sprinter, so that all finish the race at the same instant - unless one is a Mongrolian, who hates excellence in any form!
So "cut-&-paste" Benneker has his superb memorial, while the man who made the modern world possible goes without recognition or honor - well, not totally: the ESU pays homage to this great humanitarian ... on each and every 15th of January.

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