An allegory

A black family wants to move into my neighborhood. The problem is, awhile back I was mugged by a black man and the experience was pretty traumatic. Now I know the family has every right to live wherever they want to, but I think it's pretty insensitive of them to move into my neighborhood, considering the lingering trauma I'm still experiencing, so they really ought to move somewhere else. Don't get me wrong. I'm no bigot. This isn't about race or people's constitutional rights, it's about being sensitive to other people's feelings.

O.k., I may have misled you on a couple of points here. First of all, it wasn't me who was mugged, but I've known white people (or at least known of white people) who were mugged by black men, and I can imagine the experience is very traumatic for them. Furthermore it's not technically my neighborhood that the black family wants to move into, but another neighborhood where there are white people, some of whom may suffer from lingering trauma. And while those people themselves seem to be perfectly happy that the black family is moving into their neighborhood, still the black family is being pretty insensitive to white people in other neighborhoods, who have had traumatic experiences with black people, or have known of people who have had traumatic experiences. So I think some compromise needs to be reached where the black family moves instead into a neighborhood that doesn't have quite so many white people in it.

Again, this isn't about race, it's about sensitivity. I'm not a bigot. Really, I'm not.