Just sayin'...
Yes, a racial angle will complicate the public trial if not the official one.
"Some black residents in the conservative county have said the charges against the two women (there was another one recently), who are white, were treated less seriously than other offenses because the students are black."
So white teachers who have sex with black students are punished less severely than white students who have sex with white students?
preachers daughter, quite possibly set up/framed.....
http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0307/0201_allenna_ward.html
http://thelibertysphere.blogspot.com/2007/03/racial-overtones-plague-allenna-ward.html
http://www.daylife.com/story/0eqmbgfh1O0ht/news/all/1/redundant?lead_article=101000000019425613
Hoo boy, you ain't kiddin'!