'Slap in the Face' for Blacks

How can a search for a nanny end up like a slap in the face for Blacks?

New York Times writer Jodi Kantor reports in today's paper that, "Like hailing a cab in Midtown Manhattan, searching for a nanny can be an exasperating, humiliating excercise for many blacks, the kind of ordeal that makes them wonder aloud what year it is."

She finds "that many black parents do not have the same child care options as their colleagues and neighbors." And later she writes that, "The problem may be as much about class as race" and attributes the finding to a Harvard sociologist.

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