Alt-country music is a popular sub-genre in country music, but its contemporary iterations are under-researched compared to mainstream country or alt-country before 2001. This study used a representative sample of three, autobiographical, alt-country songs ("White Man's World," "Long Violent History," and "Home on the Rage") discussing racism in the last ten years. My critical discourse reveals three patterns reoccurring between the songs: authenticity negotiating, violence, and white innocence/culpability. By discussing racism, the three songs challenge the intentional lack of racial discourse in country music, but the songs fail to challenge white supremacy as the songs deflect blame for racism from the artists and their white, rural communities as well as being in support of keeping white supremacist structures. As a result, the songs function more to erase the artists white guilt than it is to dismantle white supremacy.