A response to "Middle/Upper Class Blacks get snubbed by nannies. How screwed up is that?"
One of the female subjects of this story felt the author exaggerated her family's challenges in finding a nanny or au pair because of their race. (This comes from her husband who I have known since I was a child.)
I was glad to hear this! I placed nannies for six years+ and never had a problem placing nannies with families if color. It was my experience that parents were the ones who were "most challenged" by the race issue.
I never had a white or black nanny refuse an interview or job with a black family. They never seemed concerned about race. My nannies were almost all college educated women who had been live in nannies in the past. Their focus was on the children, their profession and being of service to the families who needed them.
"Like hailing a cab in Midtown Manhattan, searching for a nanny can be an exasperating, humiliating exercise for many blacks, the kind of ordeal that makes them wonder aloud what year it is." : Jodi Kantor - NY-Times
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