The Reason Rally

I just got back to my college from the Reason Rally in DC. It... was... amazing!! As you should all already know by now, I am an atheist. The Reason Rally was billed as the largest gathering of nonbelievers ever. So, you know, that's a pretty good reason to be happy I went. But what I want to talk about is another reason I felt extremely elated to be at the Reason Rally. In this event, the skeptic community and all of its speakers went out of their way to emphasize one thing: diversity. Many of the speakers made sure that we all knew that for the skeptic community, diversity was a priority. The speaker's panel was diverse (three examples of diverse speakers that come to mind are rationalwarrior, Hermant Mehta, and Greta Christina. Now, I've seen some pretty questionable and offensive shit from skeptics (Rebecca Watson's detractors, for example) and I've felt pretty disillusioned with the mainstream movement and minority issues. But today's rally was just so... welcoming. Despite the relative majority of white people, I didn't feel out of place there. I felt like America's skeptic community wanted me to be there. So in case anyone was wondering...secularists do it right.