There are straight folks who hate gay people. That’s bigotry. Bigotry is a part of the human experience. You just cannot expect everyone to like you... The kind of bigotry I’ve run into in the black community has shocked me many times. Many black men have given up on black women. They think all black women are man-hating witches out to destroy their brothers. Do black women hate black men? Many of them do. Do I like it? Hell, no! However, it’s within the black female that the core of the black. The fire crackled and popped in the background. It cast off a warm radiance around them, in contrast to the cool breeze of the arid desert night. ‘This is perfect.’ Megan sighed as she leaned back into Max’s warm chest. ‘Yes it is.’ He agreed, hugging her tightly to him. He gazed down at her, his eyes seemed to sparkle. They both sat quietly for a while, basking in the comfort of being near each other. They were away from the real world, from all the problems they had to face day to day.. * Mark walked slowly on the concrete path. There was plenty of time for him to think about what had just happened; he had lied about class. He didn’t have math for ages, and he didn’t need the class either; on matters of intellect, he didn’t need very much. He did have a bit of a problem when it came to emotions, however. College was Mark’s safe haven in life, but it didn’t help with his life problems very much. He had grown up in a well-educated place, but because of this, he hadn’t really had. "Please don't take this the wrong way," Gail said, "but are you from this planet?"I started to laugh out loud at that one. It was the first time someone had accused me of being an alien from outer space. I stopped in mid-chuckle when I saw she wasn't kidding.The temptation to spin a yarn for her about me being from the planet Zygnxx-Prime in a galaxy far-far away; being stranded on Earth when my flying saucer crashed; and having to wait ten years for an intergalactic tow-truck to pick me up was.