Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to University of Kansas?

Kansas is near the huge federal prison, which is a host unto itself, but their journalism program can’t be beat!

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Anonymous wrote:Google the murals. They have huge murals on campus painted onto the the sides of 6-story parking garages; the murals are that tall. They are Black people’s disembodied faces, with sayings like “Use your privilege to save Black bodies” and “Black joy needs no permission.” The students laugh at the murals. People throw eggs at the murals.

It’s a horrible dynamic, regardless of whatever race your kid is. Jim Crow is alive and well in Iowa City.

The murals deserve mocking if that's what they say.

Anonymous wrote:How does it compare to University of Kansas?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Google the murals. They have huge murals on campus painted onto the the sides of 6-story parking garages; the murals are that tall. They are Black people’s disembodied faces, with sayings like “Use your privilege to save Black bodies” and “Black joy needs no permission.” The students laugh at the murals. People throw eggs at the murals.

It’s a horrible dynamic, regardless of whatever race your kid is. Jim Crow is alive and well in Iowa City.

Here’s an article about the murals by Black artists.

https://dailyiowan.com/2021/09/19/oracles-of-iowa-city-murals-reimagine-double-consciousness/

Couldn’t find anything about them being defaced but it’s no surprise that works of public art provoke different reactions.

You seem to be simultaneously attacking the murals and any negative reactions they’ve provoked. Pick a lane - maybe that will help you get the help you need.

Anonymous wrote:Google the murals. They have huge murals on campus painted onto the the sides of 6-story parking garages; the murals are that tall. They are Black people’s disembodied faces, with sayings like “Use your privilege to save Black bodies” and “Black joy needs no permission.” The students laugh at the murals. People throw eggs at the murals.

It’s a horrible dynamic, regardless of whatever race your kid is. Jim Crow is alive and well in Iowa City.

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Anonymous wrote:Sooooooo White

It’s the Midwest. Of course it is. This, however, is not a problem for us.

Klantastic!

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Anonymous wrote:Sooooooo White

Thats good for us. I want my son to go to school where other students look like he does.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sooooooo White

It’s the Midwest. Of course it is. This, however, is not a problem for us.

Anonymous wrote:Google the murals. They have huge murals on campus painted onto the the sides of 6-story parking garages; the murals are that tall. They are Black people’s disembodied faces, with sayings like “Use your privilege to save Black bodies” and “Black joy needs no permission.” The students laugh at the murals. People throw eggs at the murals.

It’s a horrible dynamic, regardless of whatever race your kid is. Jim Crow is alive and well in Iowa City.

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Anonymous wrote:“Iowa nice” is real if you are a wealthy straight white male (I am). There are deep racial tensions here. There are regular shootings (with guns, people get shot, people are killed) on the pedestrian mall two blocks from campus, where your child will be walking. There are police and cameras everywhere. Iowa City (including UI) is an AWS “city on a cloud” grant award winner; they have cameras and facial AI installed everywhere, even in dorms. Your child will be catalogued. “Tracked and stacked” is what they call it.
It is very cold and very dark, or very hot and very humid. Not much in between.
I truly hate it and feel like I’m dying.

-Prof PP

I appreciate the specifics. Lets folks meaningfully consider the impact (if any) they'd have on them/their DC. Many thanks.

Except it's misleading. A man was shot and killed on the Ped Mall in 2017; since then, there have been a few instances where someone fired shots (and was later arrested) but no one was killed. You'd think it's the South Side of Chicago with regular attacks from these posts.

Iowa's a really nice community, and a relatively low-key environment generally, so it seemed like the usual DCUM phenomenon where some hater emerges to dump incessantly on a school (whether it's Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, Notre Dame, WUSL, UMCP, UVA, Duke, Columbia, Penn, Penn State, etc.) was less likely. But guess not.

There was a shooting last week! Outside the boba tea cafe. Cops everywhere. Arrested a person “on the run” from Chicago at the cheap motel across town (242 exit) hours later. Where is the news? Exactly.

Anonymous wrote:Sooooooo White

Anonymous wrote:Sooooooo White