Vorwürfe gegen Lehrerinnen: Missbrauch und Rassismus

Die Skandale um amerikanische Lehrerinnen, die ihre Schüler missbraucht haben sollen, geht in eine neue Runde. In einem „konservativen Bezirk“ in South Carolina, einem der amerikanischen Südstaaten, wurden zwei Lehrerinnen festgenommen, weil ihnen vorgeworfen wurde, dass sie mit ihren Schülern Sex hatten. Das besonders Heikle an der Sache: Die beiden Lehrerinnen sind weiß und die sechs Jungen, um die es geht, allesamt schwarz.

Das Magazin Forbes berichtet:

Some of the blacks who make up more than a quarter of Laurens County's 70,000 residents are upset over the handling of the two cases, particularly the release of the teachers on bail.

They say the cases reflect the way crimes by whites against blacks in the segregated South were treated less seriously than other offenses, and blacks who leveled accusations against whites were less likely to be believed.

"If this had been black teachers, they would not be out of jail right now," said Corinnie Young, a 49-year-old bookstore employee who is black.

Some blacks shudder to think what would have happened if the teachers were black men and the students were white girls.

"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."

Anschaulicher kann man kaum präsentiert bekommen, wie in unserer Gesellschaft ein gegen Männer gerichteter Sexismus einen gegen Schwarze gerichteten Rassismus widerspiegelt. Wenn ich nur wüsste, wer zu solchen Storys die Drehbücher schreibt ...