Diamonds

On Monday Feburary 5, 2007, our mass media and society class watched a film about diamonds in realtion to the hip hop industry. In 2005, rapper/producer Kanye West realased a song entitled "Diamonds Are Forever." In his song, he spoke about diamond trading in foreign countries, as well as the great dangers in searching for these rare, precious diamonds. Kanye stated that "I made this song to inform and educate people about this problem." Illegal diamond trading has led to thousands of deaths in the small toen in Sierra Leone, as the battles continue for control for diamond mines and stones found within. I personally admire Kanye for bringing this problem to the forefront of American society. Although we are not directly effect by the illegal diamond trading in foreign coutries, we are all somehow indirectly effected by it. I feel as if we need more rappers to get involved in problems the world is facing. We can all have our own contributing to the world that we all must live in together.