Posted on 08/24/2015 2:27:50 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Members of a book club out for a ride through California wine country say they endured a "humiliating" experience Saturday when they were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The women from the Sistahs on the Reading Edge club—10 of them black, one white, per the Napa Valley Register—say they were racially targeted for laughing and talking too loud. "It was humiliating," Lisa Johnson tells the Chronicle. "I'm really offended. ... I felt like it was a racist attack on us." Johnson, who posted photos on Facebook, says members of her group, all seated adjacent to each other on the 18-mile ride, may have been "rambunctious," but they weren't "obnoxious or intoxicated." In fact, she notes, several passengers befriended them—except for one woman pointed out in one of her Facebook photos, who reportedly told the group "this isn't a bar."
"No one told us of any noise ordinance," Johnson tells the Register. "If you get a group of 11 women talking and laughing, it's going to be loud." A Napa Valley Wine Train rep said in a statement that staff "received complaints from several parties in the same car and after three attempts from staff, requesting that the group keep the noise to an acceptable level, they were removed from the train and offered transportation back to the station in Napa," per the Chronicle. The #LaughingWhileBlack hashtag has emerged on Twitter to support the women, while a Yelp reviewer who says she witnessed the women being escorted off says, "I'd like to believe it wasn't a racially motivated act, but given the fact that other, non-black guests were behaving in the same way and not removed, I can only conclude that it was discrimination. This business belongs in the 'what is wrong with our country' category."
Hmmmm, no comment on whether or not they really WERE talking too loud.
Any bets?
I was on the Napa Valley Wine train like twelve years ago and it’s really quiet and conversations are kept low. If these women were loud and being party animals then that wasn’t the place for them any more than a library would be either.
Why can’t these grown women control their inside voices?
Why is it common knowledge to them that 11 women should just assume they are going to be loud? Really? They certainly like to play the sexism/stereotype card when it suits them.
So it was behavior, not racism at all. Just wondering what shade of skin is required to make you exempt from rules of common courtesy after three warnings.
Rhetorical question, of course.
Being “ UNGRACIOUS while black” ... seems to be very common..
Overlooking being UNgratiful, UNintelligent and UNsocial..
Moslems will get on an airliner, behave obnoxiously, get themselves thrown off, then sue the airline.
Being obnoxious is normally a condition decided upon by others.
Loud Drunk Black Females Lives Matter.
I imagine the cognitive dissonance was reaching critical levels.
Loud and obnoxious transcends races and has nothing to do with the color of one’s skin, but rather the content of one’s character.
No, these lard-butt brass biotches belong in that category. Or the livestock car.
You have to be a real jerk to be thrown off that train.
Whatever your *color*.
Hope they have some video.
Loud drunks always blame everyone else the morning after.
The wine train sold 11 black women tickets believing they would be civilized, just like all the other patrons.
The 11 black women believe that boorish loud behavior should be expected of them, and that their skin color should exempt them from the rules of polite society.
Tell me again who is the racist?
The politically correct leftist democrats are very racist. They disguise it with faux concern for the homeless by providing shopping carts and dumpster diving lessons, but don’t be fooled. They view the poor and everyone in fly over country as serfs and slaves.
Yes, you should. Such behavior demonstrated by the "ladies" on the train spreads like wild fire throughout other venues, some of which you might care about. Ergo, you'll end up having to put up with such riffraff.
Or maybe you have an economic stake in an endeavor, and wouldn't like it to lose goodwill on account of a bunch of reprobates.
No, it was your loud screeching laughter that did it. Other people were enjoying the trip and your group thought they were the only people in the car.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.