America, Kim Kardashian & the 1980's

Phil Donahue @ the Toronto International Film festival 2007

"Kim Kardashian has a powerful presence for such a young age.  1980, the year she was born, was an important year.  Symbolically, a shift in powers occurred.  Crack cocaine was gaining a foothold on the country, Conservatism was rooting itself deep into the consciousness of the nation towards an end that revealed, with clarity, the cancerous sores of our souls, and a War on Black communities took off with vengeful force as President Ronald Regan began to increase the number of black inmates with his 3 strikes you're out policy.  Some of the worse music gathered stem and acceptance. Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson took on mythical proportions, and manhood began to be defined by feminine men, and angry women, and the strive between men and women deepened as the last of the intelligent, and gifted talk shows, DONOHUE, took on the major issues of the times with a depth never to be seen again on national television. 

The hospitals were flooding maternity wards with crack babies, and indigo children, and the white fundamentalist earned deep acceptance as it rooted itself into the consciousness of Black American churches enforcing values, and beliefs that feed into the soul sickness of Black Americans more clearly defining the ineffective role of citizens who didn't own their images.  The drum was replaced in Black music, and popular music was created with machines, and live musicians lent less and less to the creative process of recorded music.  Amway and other business that were re-teaching Americans approach to money and wealth were recruiting like nobody's business.  Real estate was a "new" source of wealth building and new authors were flooding the market with books on self-improvement, business development, and Christianity at an alarming rate of speed. 

Women were taking more and more control of their lives, as rapes increased, and domestic violence rushed to slow the promise of equality! Into this mix Kim Kardashian was born and raised as if none if this occurred and somehow, oblivious to the deep social struggles of her era, became a focal point in a youth culture caught up on the most trivial of objectives: fame. -Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories