White guilt isn’t helping

Many major West Coast cities, including Seattle, have placed a high value on left-leaning policies in recent years. Being blue-collar and reading The Stranger or hearing public officials like Sawant speak, I’m left wondering what hope there is for a middle class (or rational discourse)? In 2018, when I wrote White Guilt Boulevard, I was down to my last breath with fools parroting phrases like, “people of color can’t be racist.” Fast forward to 2023, when the University of Washington psychology department was actively engaged in discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin [Link: https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/university-of-washington-violated-non-discrimination-policy-internal-report-finds]. White Guilt Boulevard reflects my skepticism of the progressive posturing so prevalent in our city. I look forward to the pendulum swinging so far conservative that I have to write a new song lambasting that horseshit. Ugh. Humans. Two stars, would not recommend….

Andreas, our lead guitarist explained the vocal effects at the top of the song perfectly: “I think the effect heightens the absurdity of the song’s theme in a wry/ironic way. Picture a cosmonaut in space, the epitome of human advancement, yet all he can focus on is identity-based guilt, earnestly proclaiming it to the world as if it's the most crucial topic. It's absurd, but that's precisely the point; in its seriousness, it satirizes the caricature of the woke fanatic who sees race in everything and demands uniform thinking. The space angle takes it to a whole new level.”