so it looks like Kim Kardashian has started her own true crime podcast it's called the
system which of course is referring to the criminal justice system sounds kind of like
the title of a why a dystopian novel but anyways the criminal justice system is messed up yeah but
I don't know if I exactly need Kim Kardashian to explain that to me I've listened to the few
episodes that are currently out right now and I do have thoughts both about the structure of
the podcast and about Kim's social justice era in general first of all I can't even just get
over how Kim's head is taking up the entire cover image and I completely understand putting yourself
as the cover image because it's your podcast but damn it's huge I also think one genuine critique
of it is that it takes so much attention away from the text on the cover and so much so that
you can barely notice the title but anyway the system is a true crime podcast both executive
produced and hosted by Kim Kardashian there's a bunch of other people who work on the podcast
too the credits at the end of the episode are pretty extensive it seems like each season will
focus on a different case probably the first Eight Episodes will be about Kevin Keith a man
currently serving a life sentence for a triple homicide he was convicted of in 1994. So at the
time that the podcast was recorded he'd been in prison for 28 years Keith was initially on death
row but Kim tells us his sentence was commuted to life without parole just two weeks before a
scheduled execution Keith claims he's innocent and his conviction was a case of mistaken identity to
his credit there was no weapon found no other physical evidence connecting him to the scene
Kim tells us that the goal of the podcast is to bring all the evidence in front of us and then
let us judge for ourselves but the objective of the podcast is clearly to clear Keith's
name and I don't think there's anything wrong with leading with that Kim is aware that we're
all going to be questioning as to why she's the right person to tell this story early on in the
first episode Kim mentions the case was pitched to her by one of The Producers on Family Feud
and she does say pitch like it's a concept for a TV show or simply just another topic for content
apparently people bring cases to her attention all the time but she felt especially attached to this
one Kim then says that the Family Feud producer connected her to another TV producer and reform
Advocate named Lori Lori apparently had a bunch of notebooks full of case information that she
shared with Kim and Kim said that after reading the notebook and seeing the other binders full
of information which Lori had apparently compiled over six years that she was all in the Shady part
of me feels like it's because it was obvious that most of the research and Dot connecting
had been done for Kim already the structure of the podcast is interesting it's not just Kim narrating
a story from start to finish she includes clips from interviews and news reports so that we can
hear the voices of a lot of the people involved in the case and I like podcasts that do this because
it helps create the full atmosphere for the case and it also keeps things from getting monotonous
the frustrating part about this though is that Kim will either say something and then play the
clip of the person himself saying it or vice versa as if we didn't just hear for ourselves
it leads you to wonder what exactly Kim is providing with her narration since most of
the heavy lifting is being done by the clips that are included in the podcast apparently
this is a criticism that quite a few listeners of the podcast had so I wasn't alone in having this
opinion I think this is an example of the larger issue with the narration in the podcast it spoon
feeds the audience to a point that slows it down most of what Kim says in her narration is either
repetition of something we've heard is common knowledge or she's just talking about herself
several times in the podcast Kim stops and defines words for us like clemency and pardons and Alibi
though maybe the average child might not know what those words mean an adult does especially the type
of adult who's most likely listening to a true crime podcast though Kim's team has denied this
I do want to acknowledge that the family of the victims claim that they weren't contacted for the
podcast in an interview one of the victims Quentin Reeves said neither Kardashian or anyone working
on the podcast contacted him during production one of the other victims named quinita said that they
weren't contacted until the podcast premiered on October 3rd a couple days ago a statement released
through TMZ said the production team of the system made multiple attempts to reach out to the Reeve
siblings at the time they decided not to share their story and request that we no longer contact
them if they have reconsidered we welcome them to sit down for the podcast at any time even though
it's not technically illegal I always find it kind of distasteful when people know the victims or
family don't want to contribute to a video movie or podcast or whatever but they decide to make
it anyway a lot of the podcasts especially the first episode isn't even really about Kevin Keith
and his case Kim takes a detour halfway into the episode where she has to remind us that she freed
Alice Marie Johnson in a way that gives off the vibe that she's reminding us of why she deserves
to host the system she talks about how she went to the kushner's and Trump personally to get Alice
pardoned and then she mentioned she found Alice the ideal candidate essentially to launch her
pursuit of freeing wrongful convicts Kim says she chose to free Alice Johnson because she was the
best person for IT image wise her reasoning for this was that she was a mother and grandmother
and the implication there is that she's a nice old lady who's harmless I don't think someone's
image should make them a more viable candidate only whether there's sufficient evidence that
they didn't commit the crime or any similar ones and that they're a non-violent offender and while
I can somewhat see Kim's Point heavy on somewhat what she says after that is even more questionable
Kim says it was important for her to choose the right person to free from jail in order to prove
nothing bad would happen with them walking the streets so this comment kind of just moves it
Beyond Optics and seems to imply that because of a person's image alone we can predict how they're
going to behave once they get out of jail I don't see out being a grandmother or a mother would make
someone less likely to offend than someone who likewise has no prior criminal record or history
of violent Behavior but this comment does prove that Kim is intentional about the cases that she
chooses to take up and the image that they'll project after freeing Alice Kim has shifted
voice regarding conversations about black lives matter police brutality and things of the like
which she wouldn't necessarily get to do otherwise Kim's podcast is the latest development in her
drawn out marketing campaign to make sure we all see how serious she is about becoming a lawyer a
few months ago she spent an entire episode of the Kardashians focusing on commuting Julius Jones's
death sentence though I'm not going to knock him for saving someone's life there is something kind
of dystopian about a mega celebrity showing the process on their reality show where they also
show themselves picking out outfits for fashion week and hosting baby showers and other lavish
parties a lot of that episode was also spent watching Kim leverage her celebrity Connections
in order to get Jones's sentence commuted before the deadline Kim does that same sort of thing in
her podcast as well she spends time that she could be spending talking about Kevin telling
us that she has her own legal team and that some of the lawyers she worked with helped her dad on
the OJ case we know that is one of the most famous people in the world Kim probably has Connections
in nearly every industry but it seems like Kim herself feels the need to consistently remind
us that other people are taking her seriously so we need to take her seriously as well I feel
like the big issue with Kim censoring herself in a lot of these efforts is that it points out
that she benefits from a lot of the inequities that she now publicly wants to condemn Kim by
no means is the only person doing this sort of work even in the cases that she puts her face on
she's becoming one of the most known people for doing it this is obviously because of Kim's large
platform at any given moment Kim can get a message in front of millions of people but I don't think
that having a huge platform is always equivalent to getting a lot of people to care about the cause
that you're promoting especially to the point where they're ready to take action you don't even
have to follow Kim Kardashian to see your post on social media because she's everywhere like I
don't even follow Kim on social media but I see a lot of her selfies and Paparazzi shots and things
just because so many other accounts repost them yeah I very rarely see any reposts of any content
she makes regarding Criminal Justice Reform or any case that she works on because let's be real
Kim Kardashian's General fanbase doesn't care about Criminal Justice Reform and they're not
following Kim for that sort of content and more importantly the demographic that Kim is trying
to reach either likely doesn't follow her or if they do they're not listening to anything that
she has to say about politics or criminal justice I acknowledge that Kim is working towards becoming
a lawyer and has gotten people out of jail off of death row but I'm also going to be real and
so that Kim Kardashian is never going to be the leading voice of prison reform people aren't going
to forget that the community that Kim now wants to help is the same Community she and her family have
profited off of for decades also the irony and Kim censoring herself and her platform is that it in
a way reinforces that someone with her wealth and proximity to whiteness is always going to be the
voice that holds the most weight of course Kim's platform has a lot to do with it like I said but
still the Kardashians have built that platform and an Empire off of behaviors that black and brown
women are vilified for I'm not sure what part of that is reformed so much is perpetuating a cycle
of who gets listened to and who gets to validate the importance of issues and who doesn't usually
Kim cites either her kids or her father as her personal reasons for seemingly suddenly wanting
to get into law from what I understand her father was a lawyer for her entire life so it seems like
she would have realized that passion earlier but I do remember in that episode about Julius Jones
Kim said that her dad told her never to become a lawyer because of how stressful it is so maybe
that's what made her want to become a stylist in socialite instead first Kim claims that if she
hadn't become a reality TV star she'd always want it to be a crime scene investigator or an attorney
I can also understand that as Kim gets older she might want to pursue more adult interests and she
probably feels more into now with her dad than she did when she was a lot younger I don't know I feel
like we become more in tune with our parents as we get older and as we become the same age that we've
always known them to be Kim has also been open about how practicing law makes her feel closer
to her dad since she lost him when she was only 22. so if she feels like this helps her carry on
her dad's Legacy in a way I can understand that what I don't understand is whenever Kim uses
her kids as reasoning for wanting Social Justice Reform several times Kim has said something along
the lines of having black sons and being afraid of them being stopped by the police are afraid
of them being profiled but it would be almost unrealistic to say or feel like her kids who are
biracial and whose parents are both billionaires are at as much risk as regular little black kids
Living in America while I get that anything could happen watching Kim act absolutely terrified about
this doesn't sit right with me and I think it's because she's shown multiple times that she kind
of picks and chooses when she sees her kids as black perfect example I saw a tick tock the
other day criticizing Kim for not only partnering with Dolce Gabbana but for having her children
attend the show and wear Dolce Gabbana clothing I tweeted this earlier today but I have finally hit
the point where I have blocked the entire family Kim Kylie Kendall Courtney Chloe I've blocked
everyone because the thing is it doesn't matter if I block them I still will be served content by
them the products they're pushing the products are selling because they have a monopoly on the media
and the fact that they promote Dolce Gabbana and partner with them with their chest but
their full chest is so disgusting to me and the fact that she's parading her black children
around Dolce Gabbana like if they're part of the campaign or whatever is absolutely Insanity to
me and I am just so curious as to how these children will think and their opinions when
they get older but I'm just so done with this family you guys I'm so done of them being shoved
down my throat I feel like this is because Kim is always going to see her children as wealthy
Kardashian West before she sees them as anything else but Kim and the Kardashians have proven time
and again that everything they do is a business or for business in the podcast Kim is this weird
moment where she says she thought would happen to Kevin only happens in movies and couldn't
fathom it happening in real life and then Kevin agrees with her but he does go on to talk about
the structural issues that lead a lot of young men to commit crimes and it's so clear that Kim isn't
equipped to add anything to this conversation and for her to be doing the work that she is I think
it's important for her to understand not just what to do after the person's already been accused or
convicted of a crime but what puts these people in these situations to begin with especially if she's
so fearful of her children possibly being put in that position in the future the Kardashians have
regularly stolen ideas for their products from black creators and have used their proximity to
Blackness for social Advantage currently as we speak Kim and her mother are being exposed for
setting up Raja to take the fall for allegedly leaking the tape that made Kim famous I'm not a
Ray J Defender nor am I a Kanye West offender but you can't say that you want to stand for and help
black men and simultaneously have made your career off throwing one under the bus and still refused
to admit it two decades later even beyond that Kim herself doesn't have a clean record in 2008
she and her sisters were sued by Brandy and her mom for charging 120 000 into Brandy's credit card
back in 2004 Kim worked as Brandy stylist which is why she had access to her cards to begin with
however Kim had only been authorized to make one purchase instead she allegedly gave her sisters
the card to use and they made several purchases for stores they had at the time Dash and smooch
Kim Chloe Courtney and Rob were all named in the suit in the end because Brandi begged her
mom to her mom dropped the lawsuit apparently the Kardashians still agreed to pay back the money but
they never did and they eventually settled out of court in 2009 it seems like the Kardashians are
always in some lawsuit or another or engaging in tone-death Behavior that's contradictory to Kim's
social justice persona it's never a bad thing to get someone out of jail who was wrongfully
convicted or saved them from Death Row but it's still clearly self-serving also we can
see it in the way that Kim centers herself in a lot of these conversations and is seemingly
not only getting into laws of passion but as a way to rehab her Public Image also I think one
could fairly argue that despite the benefits of her using her platform it's still exploitative
of behavior but just in a different way but I think the biggest question is how much it really
matters as long as the result that's achieved as an innocence person's life is saved or that
they're out of jail I don't think it's all that fair to attack him for making a career change
or for having businesses outside of law yet it is fair to attack her by pointing out that a
lot of her businesses don't treat their employees with the dignity she's fighting for others to be
treated with it's also fair to to point out that in her past she's committed crimes that she still
has an answer for and how she's able to move through the world has a lot to do with that so
I'm not saying that people can be multifaceted or that Kim can't be a celebrity and an activist but
I am saying that her actions and her words should match it might be easy to think oh well at least
Kim's helping while Kanye's not but what one of them does has nothing to do with the other and
it's not like Kim and Kanye are on the opposite sides of a political or social justice binary
they've both proven several times that they're on their own side and are going to support and
defend whatever makes them money and pushes whatever narrative they're selling at the moment
regardless Kim Kardashian's new place in the worlds of law criminal justice and True Crime is
one that's hard to explain and have a definitive opinion on on one hand Kim is using her platform
to achieve Real Results but it's also hard to look away from how Kim herself refuses to acknowledge
that she in fact is a beneficiary of the very system she's claiming that she wants to reform
I probably will be listening to the rest of the podcasters to see how it unfolds I don't
know if I'll check back in with any critiques because I don't know if I have anything else to
say about the situation I guess if I do you guys will be the first to know but let me know what
you guys think Have you listened to the system what do you think about Kim having this true
crime podcast do you think she's just jumping on the podcast bandwagon do you think like I
said this is just another Block in her trying to build this narrative that she's going to be
the lawyer and that she's now a woman of the people what do you think as always be sure to
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