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Atheists, agnostics and free thinkers in the black community celebrate African American history month with a billboard campaign in several cities noting the humanist tradition of people like Fred Douglass, Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston and WEB Du Bois (peoplesworld.org)

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[–]wannaridebikes 3 points4 points ago

A lot of people, believers and non-believers alike, don't realize how many doubters there were in our community. The majority of black media gives the impression that belief is the "default position" of black people throughout history, so I hope this campaign gets a real dialogue started.

[–]ChuckSpears 0 points1 point ago

what about the billboards for lottery tix, menthols, and cheap malt liquor?

Does Billy Dee know about this?

[–]meatpod -4 points-3 points ago

I don't know about everyone else, but I automatically downvote every post that mentions black history month. Take your racist drivel elsewhere.

[–]Spectro87 -1 points0 points ago

As far as I've seen, none of it promotes black supremacy. Acknowledging that black people exist, are equal, and have been treated extremely poorly is not racist.

[–]Legitimate_Scientist -1 points0 points ago

If black history month isn't racist, then when's white history month?

[–]PelliMoon -1 points0 points ago

BHM is a response to the fact that every month is white history month. So when are the other minority months, you might ask? Google 'em, they exist.

[–]Legitimate_Scientist 2 points3 points ago

Relegating black history to a single month of the year is racist in itself, as is, in my opinion, segregating history by race (Morgan Freeman puts this rather nicely.). History isn't black history, Asian history and white history, it's just history.

Singling people out by the colour of their skin, even if it is to celebrate their heritage, is not how equality works.

[–]PelliMoon 0 points1 point ago*

Ideally, yes, it would be best to just sprinkle black history throughout the yes and rework our history curricula so that it's less "white men take the world by storm" and more "all these people worked together to make the world as we know it what it is today.

EDIT: Also, almost none of the systems we have in place designed to correct (for) inequality are "how equality works." Affirmative action is not how equality works, it's how you work toward equality. Same with the establishment of hate crimes, minority safe spaces, HBCUs, etc.

[–]thesorrow312 -1 points0 points ago

Title should include Anti Theists.

[–]Spectro87 0 points1 point ago

Anti-theists are atheists.

[–]thesorrow312 2 points3 points ago

Not always. Thomas paine was an anti theist deist. He believed in god, but didn't trust anyone who claimed to know his will. He aimed to protect god from false religion.

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