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Insights & Opinions | August 27, 2015

Passengers kicked off train: Racial or rowdy?

Race Issues

A group of black women were kicked off a winery tour train after they'd been warned ...

Five of the women who were kicked off a Napa Valley winery tour train (Associated Press/Photo by Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

A group of black women were kicked off a winery tour train after they'd been warned three times (according to the tour operator) about laughing too loudly? Other passengers complained, and tour staff repeatedly told them to keep it down. One of the women took to Facebook and blamed the reprimand and banishment on skin color and created the hashtag #laughingwhileblack.

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