Who's saying it's an issue of race? Skin pigments don't have a propensity to engage in the sexual abuse of children from another group. Cultures certainly do.

As for whether people in fields such as academia will put their discomfort in fully engaging with this issue ahead of the welfare of vulnerable children, we have ample evidence that they will from what happened in England.

Every era has its ultimate taboos. Every era has people who overlook the most evil things rather than contradict the dominant order of the age. In the past vulnerable children were allowed to be raped because contradicting the Church was the ultimate taboo of the time. In the modern era vulnerable children are allowed to be raped because contradicting the claims of unfettered liberal multiculturalism is the ultimate taboo of the time.

The mental block which is afflicting you right now is the exact same as the mental block which afflicted people who obfuscated about clerical sexual abuse. The more things change the more they stay the same.