Women Kicked Off Train For #LaughingWhileBlack Share An Important Lesson On Racial Bias

"We don’t want this to happen to anyone else again."

Three of the 11 women of who were kicked off of a Napa Valley Wine Train in August for #LaughingWhileBlack appeared on “The Real” Tuesday and opened up about the ordeal in their first televised interview.

The women, 10 black and one white, were on their annual book club trip to Napa Valley and said they were “humiliated” when they were escorted off the train tour by police after receiving noise complaints from other passengers.

The three women said on the show that they were singled out because of their race and want justice but that their experience came with important lessons they hope everyone will learn.

“What we want people to learn is to just be careful of your biases and how you view a group of people when you're around them and how you use your power if you’re in a position of power to make decisions that will then render how it will affect other people’s lives,” one of the women told the hosts. "We don’t want this to happen to anyone else again."

Shortly after the women’s story went viral, the Napa Valley Wine Train company issued an apology ensuring that there would be additional training for employees on cultural diversity and sensitivity. They also gave free train passes to the group.

However, the women are demanding more than an apology. Last week, the women filed an $11 million racial discrimination lawsuit, according to the Associated Press. They also claimed that the company's statement defamed them after it said that the women were being verbally and physically abusive.

"We had such high hopes for this wine train because that was the first time that we had ever taken the wine train and I just never believed in my wildest dreams that I would go from having such excitement as you saw to being kicked out into a dirt lot with waiting police officers,” book club member Lisa Johnson said.

“We are a book club, that’s all we wanna do is read books and have a good time.”

Watch part of their interview on "The Real" in the video above.

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