ABSTRACT
For many white Americans, whiteness was once this god and its death offers time to theorize the life and death of the god-idols created in the United States. When religious expressions fail to address the existential needs of adherents, and when the gods created die rather than teach how to die, then embrace of uncertainty offers the moment for creative response. Assuming that the death of whiteness opens new possibilities, some of those possibilities could cause untold harm and destruction. People do not know what their particular white American community will do, the steps they will take, as they hear of whiteness's death and as they wrestle with others and themselves in this twilight. If history is any indicator, one should not celebrate, but be fearful. Those who know not of their own deaths know less still of humanely engaging others.
