Neither of them help Dre feel comfortable with hiring someone to clean his house he still thinks it’s something reserved for white people.īow has already pointed out Dre’s hypocrisy about the things he loves that are typically associated with the white upper class - like Asian pears, Kenny G, and neti pots. Daphne still has two nannies even though her children are grown, including one she keeps employed because of some compromising photo. Stevens married his nanny, then divorced her, and she went back to working for him. The two bosses reveal their own creepy relationships with the nannies they’ve hired. Stevens and Daphne out when they suggest Dre hire a foreign nanny because she’d work harder. Lucy is the only one who ever makes any sense, calling Mr. Josh has become even more of a suck-up, changing his mind any time Daphne disagrees with him. Honestly, I’d forgotten all about them - it’s been such a long time since we’ve seen Dre at work, and his colleagues have remained their usual racist and sexist selves. Ruby is often out with her new, younger boyfriend, and Pops runs to Las Vegas every chance he gets. He doesn’t like the idea of strangers helping to raise the kids, but Bow points out they don’t have enough close family around to help out, like Ruby did when she was raising Dre. He thinks having a nanny is something for white people. Bow argues that they need to hire a nanny, but Dre doesn’t want to do that. They’re sending the kids to school with medical waste instead of lunches and burning iron marks onto the backs of their shirts. In “Black Nanny,” Dre is faced with a new kind of feeling about being well-off: guilt.īow and Dre can’t manage the household as well as they once did. He’s always been proud of where he came from, even as he’s glad to no longer endure the poverty of his childhood. Over the course of Black-ish, we’ve watched Dre grapple to overcome his urban, working-class roots, while still hoping to pass down lessons to his children. Marsai Martin as Diane, Yara Shahidi as Zoey.

The nanny season 6 episode 18