Comments on: NYT: Black nannies won’t work for other blacks http://www.bloggernews.net/13393 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 28 May 2012 01:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: South African black mama http://www.bloggernews.net/13393#comment-935959 South African black mama Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:32:06 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13393#comment-935959 Hi there Interesting to note this problem in US. We have a similar problem in SA. At a time when many black middle class families find are finding that their children cannot speak the vernacular as the medium of instruction is English, few South African-born black nannies want to work for us black mamas. Here its due, I think, to the legacy of apartheid. Black women have been heard to express a preference of 'even catching 2 taxis to get to work, in a white area, for a white madam' than being forced to admit to relatives that my boss is black? Where else are people experiencing similar racial stereotyping against them by 'their own kind'? Hi there

Interesting to note this problem in US. We have a similar problem in SA. At a time when many black middle class families find are finding that their children cannot speak the vernacular as the medium of instruction is English, few South African-born black nannies want to work for us black mamas.

Here its due, I think, to the legacy of apartheid. Black women have been heard to express a preference of ‘even catching 2 taxis to get to work, in a white area, for a white madam’ than being forced to admit to relatives that my boss is black?

Where else are people experiencing similar racial stereotyping against them by ‘their own kind’?

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