The Wine Train Thing Happened to Another Group of Passengers, This Time Latino
The latest report comes after the removal of a group of mostly black women from the train following a similar complaint against them, the difference in this second case being that the group was only threatened with removal and not actually ultimately removed.
Norma Ruiz, a graduate student in the University of California–San Francisco’s nursing program, was celebrating her 28th birthday in April when a patron approached her party of 10 people to say that they were being annoying and loud.
“We were kind of taken by surprise because we were just celebrating my birthday having normal conversation,” Ruiz told me.....Yale sociology professor Elijah Anderson has described how “white spaces” are “overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, restaurants, and other public spaces” where people of color can feel a burden to prove their belonging.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/25/napa_valley_wine_train_discrimination_another_passenger_thinks_she_was_discriminated.html?wpisrc=obnetwork
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The Tea Party Express tour "symbolically" started in Harry Reid's hometown, Searchlight, Nevada, but quietly started in Napa, California, hoping to collect idiots along the way. It did.
Here's a local story you may have missed:
Tea Party Express rally falls short of early billings
600 people who attended the Tea Party Express Reclaiming America bus tour at the Napa Valley Expo, are seen during the singing of the National Anthem on Saturday morning.
August 27, 2011
On Saturday, roughly 600 people gathered on the sprawling carnival grounds of the Napa Valley Expo for the so-called “super rally” that would kick off the Tea Party Express’ “Reclaiming America” bus tour.
The turnout was a far cry from the 4,000 to 5,000 people that representatives from Tea Party Express’ Sacramento office said they were expecting only days before the Napa rally.
Tea party supporters, who skewed older, were a mostly subdued group, seated picnic-like on lawn chairs and blankets for two hours of music and speeches.
Adding to the event’s dampened atmosphere was that no GOP presidential candidates appeared, despite reports that at least one would be attending. Also, the event was met with vocal protests from several hundred representatives of the Democratic and Green parties and progressive groups.
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http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/tea-party-express-rally-falls-short-of-early-billings/article_f26775ca-d0e9-11e0-9559-001cc4c002e0.html
Palin joint the circus later on:
Napa is full of very wealthy, precious little buckets of pretentiousness who look down their nose at the slobbering masses that visit "their" valley. From their perspective, it's "unseemly" to be loud. Or to get tipsy while you're drinking. Or to wear denim. Hell, some of them get upset if you SWALLOW your wine ("Swish and spit my dear, we're tasting, not drinking. This isn't a bar!"
And when they judge you, they don't do it quietly and respectfully. They make snide comments, take long disapproving glances, and will do whatever they can to make you feel unwanted. I'm as lily white as they come, and I've been a target of it.
Napa is beautiful and the wine is awesome, but the people there REALLY suck. If you want to taste wine without dealing with the pretentious, judgmental bullshit, head over to Sonoma, or to Lodi, or down to Paso. Hell, even Livermore has great wines.
