Is Iowa still promoting the State to Minorities? (Des Moines, Waterloo: movie theaters, gated)

[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by Not Iowa

Why? Go to any major metro and walk down the street. Black and white youth dress the same, speak the same, act the same. What makes you so special, anyway? You're a bigot for crying out loud - great contribution to society!

Actually, coming from Chicago - this is most definitely false. Especially compared to city youth and suburban youth. I've had much different experiences with kids on the west side than I have with kids in the suburbs.

There are many many different cultures in our country.

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

Really? Al-Khwarizmi from Persia is the inventor of modern algebra.
Bi Sheng(China) came up with movable type before Gutenberg did.
Elijah McCoy(Black Canadian) Displacement lubricator(for the trains of that day)
Otis Boykin(Black American) inventor of control unit for the pacemaker, which helps keep a regular heartbeat.
Garrett A. Morgan(Black American) the inventor of the traffic lights and the gas mask.

Europeans did sail around the world and invent stuff. I will give you that. With that said, they aren't the only ones nor are they the only ones to write beautiful poetry and novels. Do some more research.

You've got to be kidding me. "Do some more research".

No one said that non-whites have never made any contributions to society, I'm just saying that white people of European descent have made the overwhelming majority of contributions. If it weren't for whites, I can assure you that you wouldn't be sitting in front of a computer right now.

btw, Garrett Morgan didn't invent the first traffic light or gas mask. He just was in on one of the (relatively) early patents. There was a traffic light in use in Paris before he came up with his device. I believe I read there were approximately a hundred other gas mask patents before he had his. I see your rail lubricant and raise you the steam engine.

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

Actually, coming from Chicago - this is most definitely false. Especially compared to city youth and suburban youth. I've had much different experiences with kids on the west side than I have with kids in the suburbs.
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Yeah, I don't know what TV show she saw that on.

[Steve_W]

Originally Posted by El Rhino

Yeah, I don't know what TV show she saw that on.

"The 8 Mile" or "Malibu's Most Wanted"...I think that is where she got it.

[txcollegeboy]

America is becoming balkanized. Diversity will be our destruction.

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by Steve_W

"The 8 Mile" or "Malibu's Most Wanted"...I think that is where she got it.

Maybe this lovely gem of Iowa-related cinema:

[Steve_W]

Originally Posted by El Rhino

Maybe this lovely gem of Iowa-related cinema:

HAHA, where did you get that?

[Stevie]

^He probably found it on Google images or something like that. I heard about that movie. It has something to do with a group of white teenage boys living in a small town in Iowa and wish they could be rap singers or something. I'd like to see it sometime.

[El Rhino]

Just looked it up on photobucket.


The movie is pretty funny, but I think it's been about six years since I've seen it. Kind of a comedy/drama with some funny lines.

[pirate_lafitte]

Not that funny at all, but way off topic.

What if someone who is a minority decides to move in and he or she isn't a gang banger or a welfare seeker and will gladly go to events celebrating European culture?