Kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud

[BDKJMU]

"Group of black women kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud

The Napa Valley Wine Train is apologizing to a group of black women who were kicked off the train Saturday for reportedly laughing too loudly.

The women said their treatment was provoked by racial bias.

“It wasn’t an issue of bias,” train spokesman Sam Singer said. “It was an issue of noise.”

Wine train officials said they created noise policies long before this incident to ensure the “safety and enjoyment of all guests.”

Similar incidents occur once a month, Singer said.

But the members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge Book Club say they were targeted because they were laughing while black.

Sparking anger on social media with many saying they are boycotting the wine train, the women’s ordeal set off the hashtag #laughingwhileblack.

It all started Saturday morning when the 11 book club members from the town of Antioch, Calif., boarded a car on the Napa Valley Wine Train. One of the members, Lisa Renee Johnson, shared a video on Facebook, describing her excitement over the tour.

“We made it, y’all. Look at us, we are getting ready to get on the wine train,” she said in the video.

As Johnson chronicled the trip through photographs and videos, the women appeared to be enjoying their experience as they sipped wine and ate appetizers.

Then two hours into the train, their girls’ trip quickly turned sour.

WOW! They paraded us through 6 cars and none of us are even drunk...the police were waiting.

The women were told they had to get off the train because they were too loud, Johnson said. One woman, she said, told her, “This is not a bar.”

The women’s laughter drew complaints from passengers aboard the train, so workers asked them three times to reduce their noise to an acceptable level, according to wine train officials.

At 1 p.m., they were asked to leave and were given a bus ride back to the train station. The trip was refunded.

But soon after the ordeal, the wine train posted a statement, which has since been deleted, on Facebook saying, “Following verbal and physical abuse toward other guests and staff, it was necessary to get our police involved. Many groups come on board and celebrate. When those celebrations impact our guests, we do intervene.”

But Johnson said their experience on the wine train was embarrassing.

“They gave us a full refund...but that's not enough,” she said. “We are totally humiliated.”

The group, she said, was paraded through six cars “on display in front of the other guests to waiting police like we were criminals.”

"Then they made a written public statement on social media that we verbally and physically abused other guest and staff...one word. Unacceptable,” Johnson said. “This can never happen to anyone else ever again.”
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[CID1990]

That train company apparently did not get the memo

Do it like they do at Wimbledon when the Williams sisters' families were whooping between serbes:

Just say, "quiet please" 500 times

[Pwns]

A group of black women being really loud in public? No that never happens, it's just a stereotype.

This has to be rrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaacism at work!

[ASUG8]

If black people boycott the Napa wine train, ridership will be down around .000000000000001%. Kind of like the boycott of SC in the early '00's and the growth of black biker week since.

[kalm]

The black woman I know would never act like this.

[YoUDeeMan]

The black woman I know would never act like this.

That's understandable...they usually only behave differently in packs.


Love the comment, "This isn't a bar."

[SeattleGriz]

The black woman I know would never act like this.

Because the one black woman you know is really white and she just got fired from the Spokane NAACP!

[Chizzang]

The black woman I know would never act like this.

Because the one black woman you know is really white and she just got fired from the Spokane NAACP!

*BAM!

[AZGrizFan]

I think groups like this are purposely going out and seeking this kind of a reaction to validate preconceptions. They got three fucking warnings, then bitch "racism" when finally the people had had enough.

[CAA Flagship]

[Ibanez]

"Group of black women kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud

The Napa Valley Wine Train is apologizing to a group of black women who were kicked off the train Saturday for reportedly laughing too loudly.

The women said their treatment was provoked by racial bias.

“It wasn’t an issue of bias,” train spokesman Sam Singer said. “It was an issue of noise.”

Wine train officials said they created noise policies long before this incident to ensure the “safety and enjoyment of all guests.”

Similar incidents occur once a month, Singer said.

But the members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge Book Club say they were targeted because they were laughing while black.

Sparking anger on social media with many saying they are boycotting the wine train, the women’s ordeal set off the hashtag #laughingwhileblack.

It all started Saturday morning when the 11 book club members from the town of Antioch, Calif., boarded a car on the Napa Valley Wine Train. One of the members, Lisa Renee Johnson, shared a video on Facebook, describing her excitement over the tour.

“We made it, y’all. Look at us, we are getting ready to get on the wine train,” she said in the video.

As Johnson chronicled the trip through photographs and videos, the women appeared to be enjoying their experience as they sipped wine and ate appetizers.

Then two hours into the train, their girls’ trip quickly turned sour.

WOW! They paraded us through 6 cars and none of us are even drunk...the police were waiting.

The women were told they had to get off the train because they were too loud, Johnson said. One woman, she said, told her, “This is not a bar.”

The women’s laughter drew complaints from passengers aboard the train, so workers asked them three times to reduce their noise to an acceptable level, according to wine train officials.

At 1 p.m., they were asked to leave and were given a bus ride back to the train station. The trip was refunded.

But soon after the ordeal, the wine train posted a statement, which has since been deleted, on Facebook saying, “Following verbal and physical abuse toward other guests and staff, it was necessary to get our police involved. Many groups come on board and celebrate. When those celebrations impact our guests, we do intervene.”

But Johnson said their experience on the wine train was embarrassing.

“They gave us a full refund...but that's not enough,” she said. “We are totally humiliated.”

The group, she said, was paraded through six cars “on display in front of the other guests to waiting police like we were criminals.”

"Then they made a written public statement on social media that we verbally and physically abused other guest and staff...one word. Unacceptable,” Johnson said. “This can never happen to anyone else ever again.”
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We all get excited and laugh and carry on. That's good. But, when we become disruptive and disrespectful, then we have a problem. Unfortunately, you can't tell them, "Listen, it has nothing to do with you being black. It has to do with you being disruptive."

[kalm]

Because the one black woman you know is really white and she just got fired from the Spokane NAACP!

*BAM!

"*BAM what?" I set that one up myself you hairy twat. Besides, she moved here from Montana.

[mrklean]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

[Ibanez]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

Wrong. You're just saying that because you blindly defend blacks.

[tribe_pride]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

According to the article, people get kicked off about once a month so while not a common occurrence, it is something that happens on that train to others. The author of the article should have followed up in the article of mentioning whether it is always to black people but from context, it does not appear to be the case.

[YoUDeeMan]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

kkklean...did you go to high school? Did you graduate?

If you did graduate, it had to be from a school that allowed students to pass with little effort, and fewer facts.

Yeah, give the guy a diploma...he's dumber than a load of bricks, but hey, he's black and ignorant, so let's pretend he earned his degree.

[AZGrizFan]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

According to the article, people get kicked off about once a month so while not a common occurrence, it is something that happens on that train to others. The author of the article should have followed up in the article of mentioning whether it is always to black people but from context, it does not appear to be the case.

kkkleanex never let facts get in the way of a good race card.

[BDKJMU]

Yeah, it was a Napa train, not a Nappy headed train...

[dbackjon]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

Wrong. You're just saying that because you blindly defend blacks.

Be prepared to eat crow.


Disgusting how racist people are - assuming that they were just loud black women in the wrong, and that racism isn't an issue.

[dbackjon]

“The Napa Valley Wine Train was 100 percent wrong in its handling of this issue,” said wine train chief executive officer Anthony “Tony” Giaccio. “We accept full responsibility for our failures and for the chain of events that led to this regrettable treatment of our guests.”

[Grizalltheway]

According to the article, people get kicked off about once a month so while not a common occurrence, it is something that happens on that train to others. The author of the article should have followed up in the article of mentioning whether it is always to black people but from context, it does not appear to be the case.

kkkleanex never let facts get in the way of a good race card.

Says the guy regularly pulling the old white male victim card.

[dbackjon]

kkkleanex never let facts get in the way of a good race card.

Says the guy regularly pulling the old white male victim card.

[grizzaholic]

If this would have been a group of elderly white women, nothing would have been said. This is fact!

Bringing race into it again.

The article was poorly written and made race the issue and not that this group of women were being loud and had been warned 3 times, 3 times, 3 motherfucking times to quiet down.

[grizzaholic]

Yeah, it was a Napa train, not a Nappy headed train...

You sir, can have a cookie

[grizzaholic]

“The Napa Valley Wine Train was 100 percent wrong in its handling of this issue,” said wine train chief executive officer Anthony “Tony” Giaccio. “We accept full responsibility for our failures and for the chain of events that led to this regrettable treatment of our guests.”

GOD DAMNIT I hate it when people cave to the littlest pressure. Fuck them