Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

I am sure I have made some microaggressions before because I do not think before I speak and I am a pretty outspoken person. For example, my friend JD, who lives in Black Mountain, N.C., is extremely racist though he does not believe he is. He makes more blatant racist comments then comments of microagression. When I was visiting him he made comments like: ‘they may be dressed nice but they are still lying and stealing niggers’, ‘I think tattoos are acceptable on men, but women are meant to be untouched’, ‘I cannot believe she has never stolen from work’ (about his African-American co-worker), and ‘I would never condone cheating but why did she cheat with a black man.’  I am sure he made other comments that were more microaggessions then racist but these were the ones that stuck out in my head. I was not comfortable around him fully when he made discriminating comments and I was worried that others would assume that I felt the same way. He does not see anything wrong with his comments and does not feel bad about them. To him they are the truth, facts. These acts of microaggression happened in different settings. Some times JD and I were out to eat or just talking in general. 

I was only able to do a little observation of others and myself this week. I was not out in the public much and when at work there are only 2 others employees and the clients are all children. All the family and friends I came into contact this week did not make any prejudice comments.