Went Christmas shopping with my dad tonight, then to dinner with him, H, and D. Shopping went as well as it goes, I suppose (I mostly do online shopping now, so being in a mall for a few hours is like .) He's generally very liberal in his politics, like, watches Rachel Maddow regularly liberal. But tonight he made this sort of offhanded racist comment (about next-door neighbors that could potentially be moving in), and I sort of froze in how to respond. Like I said something like, "They might be very nice people" and "Remember that I'm the minority in my neighborhood..." But I don't feel I responded strongly enough. It just threw me off--my mom might make those comments, but generally not my dad. Part of me is tempted to email him about it, but H is like, "Don't bother, he probably won't even remember saying it." Just feel weird about it...