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Surveys suggest most atheists are white men. A recent survey of 4,000 members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation found that 95 percent were white, and men comprised a majority.<ref>http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/01/atheists-diversity-woes-have-n.php</ref>}}
Surveys suggest most atheists are white men. A recent survey of 4,000 members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation found that 95 percent were white, and men comprised a majority.<ref>http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/01/atheists-diversity-woes-have-n.php</ref>}}
Samuel D. Adams writes about [[American atheism]]/[[evangelicalism|evangelical Christianity]]: "Evangelicalism – which many atheists endlessly lampoon as whitewashed and sexist – is more diverse than atheism, with more than half of US evangelicals being female and 76% being white."<ref>[https://samueldjames.net/2015/11/06/american-atheisms-diversity-problem/ American Atheism’s Diversity Problem] by Samuel D. Adams</ref> See also: [[Atheism and sexism]]
Secular leftists in the West often decry [[racism]], yet the atheist leadership is made up predominantly of white males and racial minorities are underreprentated in atheist community in the Western World (see: [[Western atheism and race]]).
Secular leftists in the West often decry [[racism]], yet the atheist leadership is made up predominantly of white males and racial minorities are underreprentated in atheist community in the Western World (see: [[Western atheism and race]]).