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It is often faith-based organizations that tackle social problems in communities of color, running food banks or day care centers or job training programs through churches.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/black-atheists-say-their-concerns-have-been-overlooked-for-too-long/2014/10/09/051d9e04-4fc9-11e4-877c-335b53ffe736_story.html Black atheists say their concerns have been overlooked for too long], Washington Post reprint of Religious News Service article</ref>}}
It is often faith-based organizations that tackle social problems in communities of color, running food banks or day care centers or job training programs through churches.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/black-atheists-say-their-concerns-have-been-overlooked-for-too-long/2014/10/09/051d9e04-4fc9-11e4-877c-335b53ffe736_story.html Black atheists say their concerns have been overlooked for too long], Washington Post reprint of Religious News Service article</ref>}}
== African-American atheists and loneliness ==
== Token efforts to extend black leadership positions in atheist organizations ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and leadership]] and [[Atheist organizations]]
On October 9, 2014, the atheist Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson declared:
{{cquote|Despite frequent tokenistic calls for “diversity” within the “movement,” there are virtually no people of color in executive management positions in any of the major secular, atheist, or [[Secular Humanism|Humanist]] organizations —notable exceptions being Debbie Goddard of Center for Inquiry and Maggie Ardiente of American Humanist Association. People of color are constantly bombarded with claims of separatism, reverse discrimination, and “self-segregation” when they point to the absence of social justice, anti-racist community organizing, coalition-building, and visibility among secular organizations. After the Washington Post article, the vitriol and denialism among the “We are All Africans” white atheists was off the chain. This illustrates yet again that sticking a few of us on conference panels or secular boards is nothing but cheap appeasement.<ref>[http://chrisstedman.religionnews.com/2014/10/09/atheism-social-justice-sikivu-hutchinson-first-people-color-beyond-faith-conference/ Atheism and social justice: Sikivu Hutchinson on the first People of Color Beyond Faith conference], Chris Stedman, Religious Service News, Oct 9, 2014</ref>}}
=== Sikivu Hutchinson's criticism of RDF and Center for Inquiry merger ===
[[File:Sikivu Hutchinson.JPG|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Sikivu Hutchinson]]]]
''See also:'' [[Center for Inquiry]]
Atheist Sikivu Hutchinson wrote:
{{cquote|The recent merger of the secular organization [[Center for Inquiry]] (CFI) and the [[Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science|Richard Dawkins Foundation]] (RDF) has been dubbed atheism's supergroup moment. Acknowledging the two organizations' outsized presence in the atheist world, Religion News Service acidly declared it a "royal wedding". The partnership, which gives Richard Dawkins a seat on the CFI board, smacks of a vindication of Dawkins' toxic, reactionary brand of [https://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/richard_dawkins_does_it_again_new_atheisms_islamophobia_problem/ damn-all-them-culturally-backward-Western-values-hating- Muslims] New Atheism. As one of the most prominent global secular organizations, CFI's [http://www.centerforinquiry.net/about/corporate_governance all-white board] looks right at home with RDF's [https://richarddawkins.net/boardandstaff/ lily white board] and staff.<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sikivu-hutchinson/atheismsowhite-atheists-o_b_9078736.html #AtheismSoWhite: Atheists of Color Rock Social Justice] by Sikivu Hutchinson</ref>}}
The [[secular humanism|secular humanist]] document Human Manifesto II, which was written in 1973 by [[Paul Kurtz]] and Edwin H. Wilson, decried racism and it declared:
{{cquote|The beginnings of police states, even in democratic societies, widespread government espionage, and other abuses of power by military, political, and industrial elites, and the continuance of unyielding racism, all present a different and difficult social outlook. In various societies, the demands of women and minority groups for equal rights effectively challenge our generation.<ref>[http://americanhumanist.org/humanism/humanist_manifesto_ii Humanist Manifesto II]</ref>}}
[[File:Slave auction.jpg|200px|right|thumbnail|On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref name="dailymail.co.uk">[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>]]
==== Richard Dawkins family fortune and Jamaican slavery ====
''See also:'' [[Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade]] and [[Atheism and slavery]] and [[Atheism and forced labor]]
On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' "family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref name="dailymail.co.uk"/> On February 19, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that Dawkins is being called to make reparations for his family's past.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref>
== Black atheists and loneliness ==
''See also:'' [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and loneliness]]
''See also:'' [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and loneliness]]