I haven't been in the city for a while but I used to see these Black nannies walking these white kids around& pushing strollers .
Seeing the shyt turned my stomache. African and West Indian women ....judging by the accents.,most certainly being exploited..
Those women were doing their jobs,and everybody has to eat and support themselves.....but for a weird reason I would always notice and be bothered by it. Going through Manhattan, not much is going to be noticed because there's so much going on.
Woman in this story is doing too much. Not your job description to feed customer's kids...regardless of color..but definitely not white kids.
African and West Indians have pretty much taken over the nanny market. You see them teaming through my neighborhood. That and CNAs.
I feel like among wealthy whites, it's still a point of status to have colored "help", so I cringe when I see it.
However, I'm conflicted because I know that "housework" was sometimes the only work available to older black women, most of whom were our own grandmothers and great grandmothers and it provided them with what they needed to support their families. So I wouldn't want those that are doing the work out of necessity to be shamed.
The imagery of a black woman feeding a white baby still evokes a lot of feelings, though, especially since we know that that care was given at the expense of the black woman's own children.
But we're not unique in this. This most applies to any woman that belongs to the servant class of a nation.
African and West Indians have pretty much taken over the nanny market. You see them teaming through my neighborhood. That and CNAs.
I feel like among wealthy whites, it's still a point of status to have colored "help", so I cringe when I see it.
However, I'm conflicted because I know that "housework" was sometimes the only work available to older black women, most of whom were our own grandmothers and great grandmothers and it provided them with what they needed to support their families. So I wouldn't want those that are doing the work out of necessity to be shamed.
The imagery of a black woman feeding a white baby still evokes a lot of feelings, though, especially since we know that that care was given at the expense of the black woman's own children.
But we're not unique in this. This most applies to any woman that belongs to the servant class of a nation.
Good points.
Take care of white children, and go home fatigued and take care of her own children.
Irish used to occupy servant class role in this country and eastern Europeans do now. People tend to focus on the "success" of foreign born Blacks, but many of our families start off at the very bottom of this society. Literally, the servant class.
Cleaning homes,washing dishes, driving cabs(not uber...cabs)..scraping money together for rent AND on top of that ,the drain of sending money back home. Following the path and footsteps of the Great Migration out of the South by American Blacks decades earlier.The struggle was real then and it is now.
The optics though. Again, you only notice it because the caretaker/guardian looks nothing like the child . East coast, old money , wasp kids. They would stand out if the typical white ethnic new yorker were pushing them in strollers. So with the Black women walking them, I can't even lie and trick myself into believing that the child is her mixed race/high yaller son or grandson.
If Fancy doesn't stop the charade with those kids and go sit her ass down!
Looking like she's doing research to go audition for the sequel to The Help.
hehehehe
I agree that in those White trust fund social circles, the Black household workers are not a coincidence, and those whites are following tradition .
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