Grief and the White Void
An essay by Abraham Lateiner, writer and founder of Risk Something, exploring white racial identity through the lens of grief rather than guilt. Lateiner argues that whiteness produces a kind of internal absence — emotional, spiritual, and relational — that many white people never learn to name or grieve, and that mistaking guilt for accountability keeps that grief unprocessed. He frames the work of anti-racism for white people as healing that absence directly, including through material reparations, rather than performing allyship on behalf of others.