Well, Mr. Peace, would a Black man be considered a "danger to the community" if he had sex with an 11 year-old white girl? Most definitely."I can assure you if it were an African American male who committed such an offense against a white female, history shows us that the charges, the punishment and the sentencing would be totally different," said state NAACP president Lonnie Randolph. "The system ain't blind when the perpetrator is an African American male or female or when the victim is a white female."
Jerry Peace, the county prosecutor and a white man, said that the teachers are wearing electronic tracking devices and that their release on bail — $125,000 for one, $110,000 for the other — was based not on race, but on the danger to the community and the likelihood that the defendants might flee.
Is there a double standard when female teachers are accused of abusing their male students? Yes. Are these white teachers being treated differently because they are white? Perhaps.
When young Black men age 17 or 18 are being sent to jail for having consensual sex with their white girlfriends in Georgia, why are adult white women treated differently when they have sex (even if it was consensual) with very young Black boys?
Should they be treated differently?
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Hmmm.
Exactly one black guy in Georgia got screwed in this way in recent years; using the plural here is mere speculation. And plenty of white folks in his town have rallied around him, including his adoptive parents.
The legal system pretty clearly screws men in these situations, and the screwing clearly crosses racial lines; witness the Duke Rape False Accusation. Without expensive attorneys, those crackers may have gone down. In that case, lots and lots of white folks rallied around the false accuser at first; everybody took her accusation seriously, and even accepted it, when all they knew was that she was black and that the accused were rich white guys.
So I think we have here no evidence of racism today in these matters, but plenty of evidence for anti-male sexism.
It's very hard for me to accept that a 14 or 15 year old boy would in any way be negatively impacted if he scored with a hot teacher.
"Exactly one black guy in Georgia got screwed in this way in recent years; using the plural here is mere speculation. And plenty of white folks in his town have rallied around him, including his adoptive parents."
Nope. Two Black kids got treated this way. One was adopted and had good grades. The other was an athlete as well, but with average grades. Same law though.
"It's very hard for me to accept that a 14 or 15 year old boy would in any way be negatively impacted if he scored with a hot teacher."
The teachers weren't "hot" physically based on the photo I saw of one of them. What about a boy of 11?
And if this would be true of a 14 or 15 year old boy, why would it not be true of a 14 or 15 year old girl when girls mature faster? If an adult man had consensual sex with a 14 or 15 year old, why would that be any different than the adult woman/adolescent boy?
You're exposing your own sexism here...
The white teacher who had sex with the black boys was not hot, I agree. I am sexist myself in these matters as I believe that only girls are harmed.
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