[wardaddy]

As someone formerly involved in that business in Sierra Leone and knowing full well how much starving locals depend on such endeavors to just not starve to death and get medicine for their kids, I think hand wringing over “blood” diamonds is just another thing for spoiled white folks to feel guilty about and think of some way to make an issue of it to then preen over how noble they are to have discovered yet another injustice being perpetuated by whites against negroid raced folks.

You asked what I thought. There you have it.

How many folks fret about blood Chinese toys?

or blood cocaine or blood heroin?, blood rum or rhum or sugar or molasses?

or blood soybeans or blood fancy timber from Brasil?

or blood cocoa from west Africa?

or blood alumina from wherever?

P> now back to the real world outside whitelandia, primitive developing nations folks depend on folks making something happen there if they have the chance...metals, ore, petroleum, timber....and they need outside capital and expertise since they lack that domestically

ask any of them what they want...

this reminds me of killing logging towns in the Cascades to save owls and not giving a rip about the locals

[Bernard Marx]

Wardaddy, I could not agree more! When you look behind the propaganda, groups fomenting this guilt trip are the usual anti-capitalist suspects like Oxfam, aided by Hollywood and media liberals.

It's pure class warfare because diamonds, gold and colored gems are luxury items that appeal to "the rich." How come the U.N. and Oxfam could conveniently ignore horrifying genocide in Rwanda but nearly go into cardiac arrest because some poor fellow in Africa feeds his family sieving diamonds?

There's an obvious Marxist agenda involved. If consumers worry about the ethics of buying diamonds they shouldn't buy them. Problem solved.