This won't be news to local people, but maybe some on Facebook haven't heard of the incident. A day or two back, a women's book club, mostly black women, took a ride on the Napa Wine Train. The train rumbles slowly up and down the Napa Valley serving expensive wines to tourists. Anyway, apparently this group of women laughed too loudly, some genteel wine zombies complained, and about halfway through the journey, the book club was ejected from the train and met by local police, who did not arrest them. The women were bussed back to their starting point, and their money was refunded.
The publicity has been negative, so the Wine Train has apologised several times. I find--and I think the book club women found--the sort of 19th century racism the Wine Train zombies exhibited to be astonishing. Racism is supposed to be more subtle these days, based on special code words and ancient lifted eyebrows.
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