BLOOD DIAMONDS
Kanye West put some of his fans on African “blood” diamonds in his 2005 single “Diamonds from Sierra Leone.”
Though it’s thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs
The diamonds, the chains, the bracelets, the charmses
I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless
’til I seen a picture of a shorty armless
Well recently the 15th largest rough diamond was found in Lesotho. A British owned company bought the 603 carat diamond for $12.4 million and plan to sell it for more than $20 million.
The 1.8 million people of Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom completely encircled by South Africa, are among the world’s poorest.
Although this may not be a certified “blood diamond” it still speaks to the unjust way Africans are treated on their own land.
