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Black Women's Book Club Put Off Napa Valley Wine Train For Having Too Much Fun!
4/28/2016 1:18:28 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment
Monday, August 25, 2015
Members of a California book club have claimed they were asked to leave a train during a group outing over the weekend because of their race.
The Napa Valley Wine Train offers food and wine to passengers as they roll to Napa County wineries in updated Pullman cars.
The book club clearly was fun-loving, boisterous and loud enough that it affected the experience of some of the passengers who were in the same car, who complained to staff. A manager on the train repeatedly told the women they were laughing and talking too loudly and had asked the women to either quiet down or get off the wine train and accept a free bus ride back to their starting point.
The Wine-train employees then marched the book club members through six railroad cars before escorting them off the train. The company then refunded the women's group their ticket money.
Book club member Lisa Renee Johnson, an author from Antioch, Calif said the train company contributed to the situation by selling them seats that were scattered throughout the car, even after the members made clear they were traveling as a group. The seating arrangement made conversation more difficult, Johnson said. Noise is going to come along with that," admitted Johnson, "and laughter, because it's fun! It's wine and not just a glass of wine, it's free-flowing wine.
"We were treated like we didn't belong there, and we paid our money just like everyone else," insisted Johnson, "if they cannot accommodate groups, they should not take our money as a group."
Wine train employees had called the police to deal with what they reported were "11 disruptive females. The book club consisted of 11 women, one of them 83 years old and were already off the train when the St. Helena Police arrived. Police arrived at the railway siding and found "there was no crime being committed ... nobody was intoxicated, there were no issues." So officers left.
Wine train spokesman Sam Singer said On average, individuals or groups are asked to get off the wine train once a month for one reason or the other. "It's not a question of bias," he said.
However a police spokeswoman in the Napa Valley town of St. Helena, which the wine train summoned Saturday, said it was the first time she recalled the wine train seeking police help removing a large group.
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