Posted on 08/25/2015 6:25:49 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
A group of black women from a book club were kicked off a wine tour in Napa at the weekend - sparking accusations of racism on the company's part. One of the women, Lisa Johnson, said it was 'humiliating' when she and her friends were escorted off the Napa Valley Wine Train by a police officer. The company said the women had been spoken to several times by the train manager after complaints from other customers that they were laughing and talking too loudly. But one passenger who witnessed the incident later claimed that it was clearly racially motivated.
The Napa Valley Wine Train offers a 'three-hour journey through world famous vineyards: wine tours, wine tasting & great dining'. The women - who all wore matching T-shirts with their book club's slogan, 'Sistahs on the Reading Edge' - departed on the train on Saturday shortly before noon. They admit that they were laughing and talking with one another as they enjoyed their wine. At one point, a fellow passenger told the ladies - including an 83-year-old grandmother - 'this isn’t a bar', while a manager said they needed to quiet down.
Johnson said no one was 'intoxicated' but that a few of the ladies were 'rambunctious' at times, which most passengers did not seem to mind as they chatted with the women and snapped photos.
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Bitchen about the lack of Ripple available probably was the tipping point.
Everyone should just stop wining.
I lived in Fairfield, 23 miles from Napa, but I only rode the Skunk Train out of Fort Bragg. I was stationed at Travis AFB.
“Obviously, it was their BEHAVIOR that caused the ouster, not the color of their skin.”
....but many will never accept that for all the various circumstances they put themselves in....
The Sistahs spokesperson said no one was drunk. Wanna take a bet on that??
I can relate to this. I was once in a restaurant where a large group were in a corner. They were all loud, and it seemed to feed on itself...it was an absolute roar. No, a restaurant isn’t a church, but there are limits - and an ear splitting roar in a public place is just plain inconsiderate.
The staff tried to talk to them a few times...but they were a group of black women, and it quickly turned into a claim of victimhood/doublestandard, etc. And the group left in a huff. My biggest memory from the incident is the large amount of trash they left behind - not on the table, but on the floor.
Anyway, people can be obnoxious at ball games, restaurants, even wine trains.
yep...
Throw Baby Mamas from the Train.
When did the wine train start serving the Night Train crowd?
It would help greatly to know the last time a group or an individual got thrown off the 3-hour train ride?
How frequent? Are these others loud or just drunk?
The negro drama is never ending...
...and it’s not about the color of their skin.
I hear ya (no pun intended).
If they were getting out of hand and not responding to the manager’s requests to hold it down, then they were at fault. Right now, it’s kind of a he said/she said situation. I’d be interesting in reading what other witnesses had to say about it.
Wait: you mean they threatened and intimidated the well-behaved people?
That’s illegal. They should be prosecuted for that.
Behavior like that coarsens and ultimately undermines ojr culture and society.
“This is the very reason I hate going to any class graduations”
I’ve been to a few high school graduations recently, all the same school. The first year, the principal made a very sincere plea that people hold their applause to the end and not blow air horns. By my count, 25% of the students were accompanied by air horns when their names were read.
The next year, Sheriffs Deputies patrolled the crowd, to stop the air horns.
Our society has become infantile.
Travis ping! 1980 - 1984
My guess it they were pissed off and obnoxious because they
found out the train was not going to the Mad Dog 20 20 factory.
Yep! I remember hearing about the Skunk Train.
When were you assigned at Travis?
Exactly right...it’s the teenage “acting out” carried to adult years. Be as loud and obnoxious as you can be so everybody is sure to notice you. Most people would have taken multiple warnings to heart and quieted down.
I hate it when a nice outing that we’ve planned for months is ruined by loud, obnoxious, uncaring slobs.
When I was 13, I had a couple of these types in front of me in a movie theatre. As a reward for asking them to knock it off, I got sucker punched by a black guy when leaving the theater. That was a lifelong lesson.
That sass I see in your photo: I seek to insulate and protect my family from that.
It adds nothing of value.
It is part of a competing value system. An inferior one.
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