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Reading comprehension issues, or a deliberate misstatement by you? That is not what I said about her. I referenced the historical title for the job in the South.

"A long tradition in the south. They used to call the Black help ‘mammies’ instead of ‘nannies’, however. "

I have added emphasis if it is the former; if the latter:

Don't waste your time here; go find some monuments to tear down like a good Social Justice Warrior if you can't deal with history.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you are persisting in viewing a story about an enterprising young woman through an outdated racial lens, and every answer you have given to my suggestion that you “get with the times” is to revert back to the one worst, most tragic flaw in the southland that I otherwise adore, and know the history of very well, thanks.

You insult the young woman, then you insult me, and then you claim that it’s important that everyone on the thread be reminded of the demeaning label used over 150 years ago for enslaved childcaregivers because history!

Well, yes, white supremacist racism is the very worst part of American history; and its language is apparently still worth trotting out and defending, according to you.

So again, thank you so much for pointing out how a stereotypical put-down came immediately to your mind when you saw a photo of a black person! Without your demonstration of the way white supremacy is maintained in the minds that cherish it, we might not have known how the heart of a racist labels black people as they would have been labeled way back in the day as a defense against seeing them as deserving any success they may have achieved in these, oh, 53 to 73 years since the legal dismantling of Jim Crow.