My father is a bigot!

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I am sorry to say this, but it is just true. My father is prejudiced towards other races and it astounds me because my father is not completely caucasian himself and he married a korean woman! My father has been rambling on and on about how blacks and hispanics are taking over this country and how good white people can't find work. Oh, I just wanted to choke him when he said that. I asked him if he had applied for any jobs that blacks and hispanics have been taking lately and he said he won't work for $8 an hour. I said well, there's your problem as to why you can't find a job. Then he started rambling on about the hispanic lady who lives next door to him and how she is pregnant again and she's living off the taxpayers dime. I asked him if he knew that for sure that she lived on welfare and he said, she's hispanic and has 4 kids, of course she does. By this time, my stomach was in knots. I told him it is none of his concern that this woman is pregnant again and that he needed to mind his own business and worry about his own house. He said it's his business when she's living on taxpayers money. I told him it's not his business and that if I remembered correctly we lived on food stamps for some time because he couldn't work a long time ago. Then he went on about the black guys that hang out in their neighborhood and his friend ran over a black mans bicycle because he refused to move it out of the street. My father said you should have ran him over as well. By this time, I was losing my temper. To top it all off, he said his famous words..."I am not prejudiced, I am just sick of these people coming into this country, taking our jobs, working for less money and ruining our economy..while they live like kings and us honest hard working people live under the poverty level." I told him he was really good at cleaning everyone elses house but his own. As for honest, I don't even want to hear it from him. He stole from his own family to gamble his life away. He stole every dime my mother saved up for their life savings and for my brother and my college. Most people steal to feed their family, he stole from his own family. My mother has worked in sewing factories her whole life. Now she is almost 60 and works in a casino cleaning ash trays and toilets for other people for less than $10 an hour, and she has osteoporosis of the spine. It outrages me that this very attitude he has is the very attitude he hated when he brought my mother over to this country when he married her. What is wrong with him? It breaks my heart that my father has turned into this monster. It breaks my heart that my mother has to live the life she lives because of who she married. Today is one of the first days I really regret that he is my father. I am very saddened by this thought and I am sorry to admit it. I love him with my whole heart but this is not the man I knew as a child. My father had conviction and was a proud man and he loved everyone and he absolutely adored my mother. To hear him speak of her today the way he did sickened me. He told me that I was just like her and he didn't mean it in a nice way, but I told him, thanks for the compliment because she is a strong woman and a woman to put up with your mess for 35 years...to be compared to a woman of her stature, well, I am very proud. He said he had to go, he said he loved me and hung up. How can I love someone so much and resent someone such as I do right now? It hurts my heart. Anyhow, thanks friends for letting me vent.