Can laughter Get You Into Trouble? (Satis Shroff)
Can Laughter Get You Into Trouble? (Satis Shroff) Children and grown ups in Europe, Africa, Asia and the USA are linked with this common mirth and joy of laughter across the Atlantic, for we all laugh within or without. A group of ladies who claim they were ejected from California’s Napa Valley wine train for ‘laughing while black’ are to file a $11m racial discrimination lawsuit against the train company. The reason they want to sue the company is not for money but to raise awareness that racism was still rife across American society. Lisa Renee Johnson, one of the book group members, chronicled the incident on Twitter using the hashtag #laughingwhileblack, and they belonged to the Sistahs of Reading Edge book club. The group comprised 10 African American members and a white female member. The ages of the ladies were from 50 to 85. The Brit laughs decently because his society is like a straight-jacket with its social norms and values. As we have seen i