No more excuses, atheist conference organizers!

Greta Christina has an excellent list of prominent atheists of color, so there's no reason every atheist conference should be a sea of uniform pallidness anymore. Think about bringing in some of these people!

And by prominent, I mean really prominent. It's probably non-trivial to book Salman Rushdie, but man, I would love to hear that guy sometime.

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