U.S. Cities  

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Iowa

Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 370,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 13,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. Within the last few months our forum was cited in an article in 15 newspaper and in a story on AOL's homepage.

Get a detailed profile of any city, county, or zip code:
      Search our forums (advanced):

Closed Thread
 
Old 12-18-2007, 01:53 PM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
887 posts, read 238,869 times
Reputation: 241
Chicago60614 has a spectacular aura aboutChicago60614 has a spectacular aura aboutChicago60614 has a spectacular aura aboutChicago60614 has a spectacular aura aboutChicago60614 has a spectacular aura about
Quote:
Originally Posted by Not Iowa View Post
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.

[+] Rate this post positively

 
Old 12-18-2007, 04:17 PM
Judge, Jury & Executioner
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Des Moines, IA - Winner of the "Best City In Iowa" Poll
978 posts, read 211,935 times
Reputation: 364
El Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really nice
Quote:
Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte View Post
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.

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-18-2007, 04:20 PM
Judge, Jury & Executioner
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Des Moines, IA - Winner of the "Best City In Iowa" Poll
978 posts, read 211,935 times
Reputation: 364
El Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really nice
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicago60614 View Post
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.
.
Yeah, I don't know what TV show she saw that on.

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-18-2007, 08:37 PM
Not a member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Omaha, Ne
884 posts
Reputation: 119
Steve_W will become famous soon enoughSteve_W will become famous soon enoughSteve_W will become famous soon enough
Quote:
Originally Posted by El Rhino View Post
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.

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-19-2007, 12:31 AM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
186 posts, read 23,049 times
Reputation: 30
txcollegeboy is on a distinguished road
America is becoming balkanized. Diversity will be our destruction.

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-19-2007, 07:16 AM
Judge, Jury & Executioner
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Des Moines, IA - Winner of the "Best City In Iowa" Poll
978 posts, read 211,935 times
Reputation: 364
El Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really nice
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve_W View Post
"The 8 Mile" or "Malibu's Most Wanted"...I think that is where she got it.
Maybe this lovely gem of Iowa-related cinema:


[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-19-2007, 08:06 AM
Not a member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Omaha, Ne
884 posts
Reputation: 119
Steve_W will become famous soon enoughSteve_W will become famous soon enoughSteve_W will become famous soon enough
Quote:
Originally Posted by El Rhino View Post
Maybe this lovely gem of Iowa-related cinema:

HAHA, where did you get that?

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-19-2007, 08:17 AM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Iowa
531 posts, read 74,336 times
Reputation: 139
Stevie will become famous soon enoughStevie will become famous soon enoughStevie will become famous soon enough
^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.

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-19-2007, 09:37 AM
Judge, Jury & Executioner
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Des Moines, IA - Winner of the "Best City In Iowa" Poll
978 posts, read 211,935 times
Reputation: 364
El Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really niceEl Rhino is just really nice
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.

[+] Rate this post positively
 
Old 12-20-2007, 10:20 AM
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: GA
1,603 posts, read 546,014 times
Reputation: 173
pirate_lafitte has a spectacular aura aboutpirate_lafitte has a spectacular aura aboutpirate_lafitte has a spectacular aura aboutpirate_lafitte has a spectacular aura about
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?

[+] Rate this post positively
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It's free and quick.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.



Closed Thread


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Similar Threads

Forum Jump

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Iowa

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:25 AM.

Copyright © 2005-2008, Advameg, Inc.