I apologize if it made you feel that and it wasn't comfortable. But part of my consideration in saying that was... this is not politically correct to say (i.e.

I apologize if it made you feel that and it wasn't comfortable. But part of my consideration in saying that was... this is not politically correct to say (i.e. that it might sound like all conservatives are racist), and I don't know how else to say it, so, I'll say it. But I do appreciate that you called it out. I grapple with being racist all the time. The way I climbed up was through a lot of institutions that racist. I grapple with my complicated place in the world, when I talk to my shrink, and not infrequently, because there's a lot of non-PC / uncomfortable things about it all too. I can't get away from both sides of the racism, because of the genes I was born with, so I have to talk about it with someone. If people don't like the whole politically-correct thing, well, this is it too.