Racial burden shifts onto survivors and witnesses after deaths.

Evidence

The weight of race, as Bourdieu might have put it. That weight borne, as I say, differentially, borne by some for others, killing many for the sake of some, for the salvage and resource and supposed security of those whose weight is borne upon the backs of others. Sometimes a dead weight, one made heavier because the breath has been squeezed out of its subjects, shifting the bearing from those whose fingers have let go, too broken to grab on, to those left clinging, scratched and scarred, half ashore. The weight shifted to those etched with the grief of witness and memory, but also to those forced to grapple with the burden of tasks for which they have been left or left themselves unprepared. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 80

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Existential despair rhetoric shifted the burden of Auschwitz from perpetrators onto victims. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2045