Nanny Hunt Can Be a ‘Slap in the Face’ for Blacks

The New York Times ^ | December 26, 2007 | JODI KANTOR

[america4vr]

Only the New York Times, the liberal media's organ of record would waste resources on a story like this. Oh! Blacks can never escape the prejudice and racism so palpably prevalent in WHITE RACIST America. I mean, it's only about 150 years since slavery.. and no matter what black people do, no matter how financially successful they become WHITE AMERICA will never let BLACKS feel truly free.

Oh! What miserable fate life has in store for BLACKS. No matter the ten year NBA contracts at $25million per. doctors, lawyers, professionals with near 100% financial parity with Americans WHITE RACIST AMERICA WILL NEVER LET THEM OUT FROM UNDER THEIR BLACKNESS

Soon the New York Times will demand a federally backed affirmative action program that guarantees BLACKS a nanny, WHITE of course to legislate the inhumanity of it all away.

[darkwing104]

Do what many rich white liberals at the times do...Hire an illegal alien...

[poobear]

Um... day care?

[ClearCase_guy]

You sure do know you've been oppressed if looking for a nanny is a trying experience.

"Well, there I was, looking for a nanny under the most ghastly circumstances! Oh, James, be a dear and mix me another gin and tonic, won't you? Mon Cheri, you simply cannot believe the shame of it! Not a single nanny would visit me in mon petite pied a terre. And it's all because dat man, he be keepin' me down!"

[stylin19a]

“Very rarely will an African-American woman work for an African-American boss,” said Pat Cascio, the owner of Morningside Nannies in Houston and the president of the International Nanny Association.

Many of the African-American nannies who make up 40 percent of her work force fear that people of their own color will be “uppity and demanding,” said Ms. Cascio, who is white. After interviews, she said, those nannies “will call us and say, ‘Why didn’t you tell me’ ” the family is black?

looks like blacks blamin blacks...

[rellimpank]

--I'm sure there will be an attempt to remedy this in the next Congress--federal child care, anyone---??

[massgopguy]

They're Status Symbols. You know, like Slaves were. But it's for a noble cause.

[Renegade]

Yeah! We are a racist country . That's why blacks like Oprah and Cosby as well as sports stars and people in the music industry make millions and even billions of $$$.

[Huck]

But interviews with dozens of nannies and agencies that employ them in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Houston turned up many nannies — often of African-American or Caribbean descent themselves — who avoid working for families of those backgrounds.

Actually, just before the jump, they seem to say it's a black on black crime. Sometimes the Haitians don't get along with the American blacks.

[EBH]

Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Houston turned up many nannies — often of African-American or Caribbean descent themselves — who avoid working for families of those backgrounds

It's not about RACE

[DB]

Obviously you don't want to pay enough for your nanny.

I thought "upper middle class" meant that mom could actually stay home and raise the kids?

Obviously that upper class status is more important than the kids.

[rabidralph]

Like I was saying to Wakeisha, as we were sipping drinks at the yacht club, whitey's still keeping us down.

Oh, brother!

[misterrob]

The guy who I use for landscaping services who's black won't accept contracts from black families for many of the same reasons. He thinks that black people with money are too hard to work for.

Interesting...

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Will Jesse and Al march for Jennifer?

[Nat Turner]

this looks like "BLACK ON BLACK" class warfare to me.. Call out REBBIN AL < /sarcasm off >

[misterrob]

Anyone who knows Chicago will tell you that the South Side is where the bad neighborhoods are. Why would anyone want to go through there who didn't have to?

[DTogo]

But interviews with dozens of nannies and agencies that employ them in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Houston turned up many nannies — often of African-American or Caribbean descent themselves — who avoid working for families of those backgrounds. Their reasons included accusations of low pay and extra work, fears that employers would look down at them, and suspicion that any neighborhood inhabited by blacks had to be unsafe.... “Very rarely will an African-American woman work for an African-American boss,” said Pat Cascio, the owner of Morningside Nannies in Houston and the president of the International Nanny Association.... Many of the African-American nannies who make up 40 percent of her work force fear that people of their own color will be “uppity and demanding,” said Ms. Cascio, who is white. After interviews, she said, those nannies “will call us and say, ‘Why didn’t you tell me’ ” the family is black?

Black-on-black racism? What a dilemma for Jackson & Sharpton!

[Between the Lines]

Sounds like a case of black on black racism to me.

[wastedyears]

No way is my tax money going to take care of a coke fiend's coke-addicted baby.

[3AngelaD]

Sounds like they have found a niche for setting up a new business that finds nannies for affluent black families. Perhaps a training school for nannies as well could be set up as well. I would be willing to bet there are many women looking for a job who would be nannie candidates. There is more than one way to react to things like this.
Of course the NYT paints it all in racist colors, but I seriously doubt that is what is happening here. Also, this raised my eyebrows: "...many nannies — often of African-American or Caribbean descent themselves — who avoid working for families of those backgrounds." Why? So are the African-Americans who decline to work for black families racists, too? How are white people responsible for this aspect of the "problem."