Probably a lot of black families actually do have fried chicken, barbeque and cookouts are apparently a big part of the festivities traditionally.
If you find yourself becoming such good friends with a black person that they actually invite you to one of these cookouts, don't bring fried chicken, or watermelons, or most of the stereotypical "black" foods, they're considered black people food because the post civil war south fostered an environment of chronic black poverty on purpose that led to black families tending towards raising cheaper animals and growing cheaper crops for their own consumption.
So a white guy cracking watermelon or fried chicken jokes or bringing that kind of stuff to a black celebration comes across less as trying to share in the culture and more as rubbing salt in a, in many ways still open, wound.
As for what you should bring, bro just ask. Just making it known ya want to bring something for folks to enjoy will be good and appreciated, and if they decide they'd like to take you up on that, they'll either give you a recipe off their list of stuff they've decided they want or ask what you think you can handle making and take your word on that if anything you feel confident making sounds good. Who knows, maybe that year will go down as the year that corned beef ya mentioned becomes a staple of the annual cookout!
Orange being seen as shades of either red or yellow is also why they're called redheads, it predates the word Orange entering the english language and being a better descriptor of most of the shades in that range of hair colors.
Homer referred to the ocean as "wine dark", if you've seen pictures of the Mediterranean around Greece, that shit's as Blue as Blue can be, so what it probably boiled down to is that they could "see" blue, but they always understood it as a blackish color or Green if they had distinguished that by that point.
Basically, there wasn't a lot of necessity use in distinguishing blue, so most people didn't until recently.
Reminds me of that footage of the Chinese and Indian militaries beating the shit out of eachother with wooden sticks because they were worried even small arms fire could cause enough echo to start an avalanche.
PPE and Vaccine maker stocks, it'll be 5 years to get the initial capital but once I've got it together, those are gonna explode in value on me.
I'd hesitate to switch my college of choice for the friends I'd lose out on, but if I did I would know where I'd try extra hard to get in instead. Def reconsidering the major I study though, the one I went with was sold to me as one of the best and turned out to be fucking useless trying to find any work.
Really the last three are the only issues, amd there are ways to specifically address them,
Wage gap, for every twentieth multiple of the median of household incomes in the bottom quintile of all incomes, put a percent increase on the nominal tax rate for income above that 20th multiple, and just keep doing that for every 20th after that, also, start counting loans collateralized on capital assets (sans primary home mortgages, primary vehicle car loans and other socially advanceable loans) as salary income for tax purposes, either in all cases or specifically for loans with interest rates significantly lower than the market sustainable rates for loans for everyone else. That or just ban loans with interest rates below the rate of inflation as "failing fiduciary responsibility by literally throwing money away."
Cost of Living, the nordics have a good model here, not price caps, but caps on how much you're allowed to raise the price annually. I'd say tie it to the federal interest rate, because it'll be a solid limit on price jacking, and it'll also put a pretty intense counterbalance of class interests against the typical instinct to keep rates low forever because house price go up.
If anything, the fact that these problems can be tackled so simply almost makes them more infuriating, it's taking the active effort of knowingly malicious actors to keep these affronts to our rights to a respectable standard of living in place.
The thieves need you to believe they can't be caught. Their plan falls apart immediately if we act with a plan and agreed on goals.
Unity of action and purpose is the vaccine against corruption.
Escaping is a crime in of itself in the US, so most prisoners will just try to keep their heads down and stay out of the way of getting their sentences extended. Also, US prison can be where you're stuck for the rest of your entire life if you keep pushing it, as opposed to in LAM where some countries have a maximum term you can spend on a single prison sentence.
There are also inner gangs inside the prisons that will basically act as a trap for the really dangerous criminals, both for serially getting them into sentence extensions, and for the fact that they're as liable to come after you for trying to escape as the justice system is, and not even getting moved to another prison will be enough to save you from some of them if they think you were trying to flake on them.
Picture one given by a lady who was almost certainly trained by a Korean masseuse.
Not the ones in LA that are playing up the aesthetic to upcharge you, the legit dudes in Korea who put you down naked on a table and leave you feeling like you've been done over with a zester.
I escaped having ma dick completely ripped right off the hilt only through saying I was about to cum and wanted to fuck her first.
I left, picked a sandwich up because I knew I wasn't in the headspace to cook, sat down on my bed, and just considered my life choices with an ice pack over my jeans.