Women kicked off Napa Valley Wine Train file $11m racial discrimination suit

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

The women who claim they were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train for “laughing while black” have filed a $11m racial discrimination lawsuit against the train company.

The Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club members, who are mostly black, said they had decided to sue not for the money but to raise awareness that racism is still rife across American society.

“We feel it is really important for us to speak up,” Lisa Renee Johnson, a member of the book club, told the Guardian on Thursday.

“Racism is something we are going through as a country. We hope that as a result of this (lawsuit), people will start to look more at their internal biases.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/01/napa-valley-wine-train-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-laughing-while-black

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Rupert Neate
Thursday 1 October 2015 18.59 BST

[NV Whino]

1. Just as a note of interest

The Napa Valley Wine Train has since been sold.

http://napavalleyregister.com/star/business/napa-valley-wine-train-sold/article_2c704cf5-5f80-58fa-9146-fa45f500bf55.html

September 21, 2015 3:15 pm • By Jennifer Huffman(0) Comments
The iconic Napa Valley Wine Train has been sold for an undisclosed price by the family of its founder, the late Vince DeDomenico.

The new owners are Seattle-based Noble House Hotels & Resorts Ltd. and Brooks Street, a California-based real estate development and investment company, according to a news release. Noble House is the same group that owns and manages Napa’s River Terrace Inn.

The train’s approximately 150 employees will remain on the job, including CEO Tony Giaccio, said Jake Donoghue, CEO of Noble House Hotels & Resorts. However, chairman Greg McManus — son-in-law of founder DeDomenico — has stepped down, he said.

[Leontius]

2. Not for the money, yeah right.

[McKim]

3. Good for Them

Good for them. The were treated very badly and insulted. This is appropriate.