Kim Kardashian has dropped the trailer for her new documentary, “Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project.” It’s about the mass incarceration problem in the USA, and is going to be absolutely everywhere when it comes out on April 5th.
The documentary is two hours long and follows Kim K around as she gets involved in the cases of Dawn Jackson, Alexis Martin, Momolu Stewart and David Sheppard – all of who legal experts (and Kim) believe shouldn’t be in prison. Throughout the course of the documentary, Kim and her team visit friends and family of the people incarcerated, meet with lawyers, and lobby public officials to see if they can get any of the incarcerated people out of jail.
Look, I want this documentary to be good. I do, I really do. Mass incarceration is a genuine problem in the United States (and Australia tbh), and the school to prison pipeline is a real and terrifying thing. They’re massive issues that deserve to be tackled, but I’ll be quietly worried until I see it for myself.
Firstly, she’s gone to law school which is great! But she’s only completed a year, which doesn’t quite feel like enough to take on something of this enormity.
We also know she’s pretty preoccupied with looks, as anyone with that level of fame for being a beauty influencer would have to be. She photoshopped her kid into the Christmas card last year for god’s sake. I’ll admit I have quiet reservations about whether or not this is totally about freeing prisoners or about looking great in front of cameras.
Mostly the thing that sits in the back of my mind is the amount of blackface scandals Kim has been involved with. I get the impression that she just doesn’t learn from them, and to then go ahead with making a documentary to address a systemic issue that predominantly affects black people, it just feels… ick.
Maybe I’ll eat my words. Maybe Kim Kardashian’s documentary will be brilliant and really start a movement to fix a broken system. For now, I’m just a bit worried.
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