Here in the Netherlands there are some people who call themselves "ex-muslims", I don't know if they'd show up on those events, but they are politically active.

I think using labels like "Freethinker" is basically a white American/European thing. However there are seculars and non-religious all over the world. Some Asian countries are notoriously unreligious, like Japan. And most likely you will find individuals everywhere who have no use for whatever their local religion is. As far as Americans go, for a number of reasons I think white folks are more likely to label themselves one of the things you mention. But there are many more who simply don't participate in the religious community and don't believe, and don't join up with the Atheist/Humanist community either, so they are not counted. This writer has some good thoughts about why Humanism and Freethought are publicly represented almost completely by white men: http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/09/race-sex-atheism.html I can give you a few examples of people who do call themselves atheists and POC: http://www.infidelguy.com/ and this article: http://www.infidelguy.com/article75.html http://www.lawattstimes.com/opinion/opinion/773-out-of-the-closet--black-atheists.html http://godlessandblack.blogspot.com/ http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/4393/ http://www.blackwomanthinks.blogspot.com/ http://theblackatheist.blogspot.com/ http://www.asianatheist.blogspot.com/ http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/ayaanhirsiali/english/index.html http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/ http://www.pointofinquiry.org/norm_allen_-_skepticism_and_black_history/ http://filipinofreethinkers.org/ http://skepticallychallenged.wordpress.com/ Some famous black atheists: D.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Walter Everette Hawkins and many other members of the Harlem Renaissance movement were, I believe, atheists or at least non-religious. Carter G Woodson, who started Negro History Week. Gwendolyn Brooks. James Weldon Johnson. Paul Robeson. Lucy Parsons. Ishmael Jaffree, went before the Supreme Court in 1982 to fight against prayer in schools in Mobile Alabama, and was named Freethinker of the Year in 1998 by FFRF. Author Octavia Butler. Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers. Maulana Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa. Possibly Neil Degrasse Tyson (famous physicist and host of Nova ScienceNow on PBS). If I looked around a little longer I could go on, but I'll stop there.

I am not white and am a religious skeptic. I thought that I was an atheist until I learned about religious skepticism. I know lots of non white atheists, humanists, and freethinkers. For those who do not know humanism (I took the lazy way and used Wiki): Modern Humanists, such as Corliss Lamont, hold that humanity must seek for truth through reason and the best observable evidence and endorse scientific skepticism and the scientific method. However, they stipulate that decisions about right and wrong must be based on the individual and common good. As an ethical process, Humanism moves above and beyond metaphysical issues such as the existence or nonexistence of immortal beings. Humanism is engaged with what is human I am with that to a point. I do have a deeply spiritual side that does move beyond what is human. Freethought: Freethought holds that individuals should neither accept nor reject ideas proposed as truth without recourse to knowledge and reason. Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or the intellectually-limiting effects of authority, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmatic or otherwise fallacious principles. I fit most of that to a T. I do give respect to tradition but, in analyzing and making up my mind, logic prevails.

I know of at least 2 black AB'ers who are either Atheist or Agnostic.

We know better.

People of color tend to think more deeply about the struggles of life because they are forced to live it. As a result, they recognize that life has greater meaning and purpose than simply struggling to survive and then die.