tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post464833327711319032..comments2023-08-01T14:32:30.179-04:00Comments on BlackatMichigan.Blogspot.com: Conflict... Blood... Peace Diamonds? Russell you are still not Hip-Hop!Dumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05163810562338655923noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post-67263527869427545012006-12-27T22:02:00.000-05:002006-12-27T22:02:00.000-05:00Dumi.
" Do either of you think there exist th...Dumi.<br /><br /> " Do either of you think there exist the potential for these industries to be "clean" enough to purchase from? "<br /><br /> No.<br /><br /> Somewhere along the way, the diamond will have become "bloodied" before it reaches the hands of the lapidary, and ultimately ends up on the finger of a human.<br /><br /> Whether the diamond is mined by a young child or woman, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post-47851148706537173282006-12-26T19:19:00.000-05:002006-12-26T19:19:00.000-05:00Ann and Y-
Wow, ya'll put it quite clearly. Ann...Ann and Y-<br /> Wow, ya'll put it quite clearly. Ann you resolve is pretty amazing, the best I've done in that boycott department was on Nike and Timberland! But I do think that the diamond question beckons us a global citizens to really make some tough descisions. Do either of you think there exist the potential for these industries to be "clean" enough to purchase from? My boy is buying a Dumihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05163810562338655923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post-74184383778436166322006-12-26T11:00:00.000-05:002006-12-26T11:00:00.000-05:00Russell Simmons has finally graduated from capital...Russell Simmons has finally graduated from capitalism to its highest stage---imperialism. I guess it was inevitable. If he could exploit the trauma of poor African American men and women here, I figure glossing over the atrocities against Black people in Sierra Leone and Angola is the next logical step.<br /><br />As far as the jewelry industry goes, every damn diamond is a conflict diamond. La Otrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389700067149488878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post-78509560633692714562006-12-26T03:20:00.000-05:002006-12-26T03:20:00.000-05:00From an article in the Jewish Journal of Los Angel...From an article in the <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16913">Jewish Journal of Los Angeles</a>:<br /><br />Sierra Leone is now at peace, achieved with the help of international intervention, and trying to recover from its strife. But its recent history makes for many harrowing scenes in "Blood Diamond." The fact that the rebels sold diamonds to support their monstrous Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post-80001477058884680642006-12-21T13:18:00.000-05:002006-12-21T13:18:00.000-05:00In the end, no one truly knows whether a diamond i...In the end, no one truly knows whether a diamond is "conflict free" or not.<br /> <br />But then again, this has not been much of a mystery to me. Knowing the history of DeBeers and their cruel tactics to keep diamond miners from keeping back some of the diamonds for themselves, if caught, the overseers of the DeBeers Corporation would have the black miner hobbled to keep them from running away.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337700.post-52110045408053916932006-12-21T13:14:00.000-05:002006-12-21T13:14:00.000-05:00Dumi.
Once again I made a post, and I do not see ...Dumi.<br /><br />Once again I made a post, and I do not see where it posted. I will attepmt another post of my comment.<br /><br />Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com