Chuck D Narrates 'Bling: Consequences and Repercussions'

They say ignorance is bliss, but we all know knowledge is power. Surely hip hops finest can follows kanyes lead and speak out against these atrocities and help do something about it. I for one wouldn`t want to be helping finance the butchering of all those poor people

Why is the movie all about black people buying daimonds. I bet 90% or more of the daimonds bought in the u.s. Are bought by white people. Plus, you know all the companies that are buying them are majority white. I mean, i understand that hip hop glamorizes them and that the black community should stand up against that kind of treatment towards people (white or black) in other parts of the world, but we shouldn't forget the reality of the situation and act like black people are doing most of the damage because that's just not true. I haven't seen the movie but the message should go out to everyone.

Good talk "avery"........ I haven't seen the movie but, this diamond thing has way more to do with polotics and money makin' then anythin' about hiphop,black or white people. It's the africans in sierra leone that are doin' all the suffering, just look how many have died because of this. What about the people who actually own the minning companies, why the hell aren't they speakin' out or doing anything to change the situation, maybe it's because of the lack of respect and honor that these companies have for poor people(especially in africa, the corruption runs deep)...the way they see it is if they weren't there then "those" people would have nothing at all...isn't something better then nothing..i say hell no..but will it change anything...probably not...not until money no longer matter's and trying to run companies at max profit with little to none of the benefits deserved, is stopped....it's a good thing they don't treat oil like that...wait a minute? the other white kid

You all made good points about the article; they always shift the focus of blame to the consumers and away from the source of the actual problem. Although i do believe the fact that they're black plays apart in the amount of time it took for most to care; i also believe when millions of dollars are involved, race takes a back set. Having said that, i think the level of atrocities is more tolerated in africa because over the pan of time such atrocities have become common place, lowering the [value] of african lives while at the same time breeding governmental complacency. Of course i'm refering to foreign governments because the people in question have no recognizable or acknowledged one, which brings one to the obvious question.......why don't the foreign governments stop the import of diamonds from that part of the world? but we all know the answer to that question is the same reason why this sh*t is going on in the first place! greed & gluttony!

Having at least a chain around your neck is enough but having 3 chains around your neck and rings on 5 fingers is stupid.

It aint stupid u jus pissed u cant aford dat many

"diamonds on my neck diamonds diamonds on my neck" ha ha dayum datmuch people get kill over dat make me want to put my jewelry up "sike" anyway i probably watch the film see what it's about

whatever...everything that comes into this country has a f'd up way of getting here or being made, and if you a consumer in the us you are facilitating it, period. Just because it's africa doesn't make it any different - long-ago colonization by white people is the reason africa has most of it's problems anyway, and if it wasn't the diamonds, it would probably be something else that these rebel groups are fighting to gain control over. People try put all this guilt into black america for stuff that actually reaches us last - i'm sure "rappers" or black people in general, for that matter, are not the largest diamond consuming population in the us. That stupid comment by a "young white boy" at the end of the article really pissed me off. Why is he under the assumption that rappers are responsible for this? ridiculous.

Chuck d, chuck d, chuck d : i tip my hat to your efforts. Your always at the fore front of what society as a whole needs to here but refuse to entertain. African americans are still in the willie lynch syndrome as ving rhames vividly explained in "animal". Some off us in black america can give a sh**t about where we stand as a pepole so long as we can show off the material goods we've been blessed to attain. Signing off, chamabla jabez ceo/founder: kiss da pinki ring publications. Look for my able insha-allah/ sad smiles/ kiss da pinki ring ent. 2006

I don't think it's some much as race, yes a lot of white ppl own the jewelry store or what ever......but the film is just basicaly where and how the diamonds are obtained and at what price!

Kanye well done. Most people dont know about this.

Forget about jewelry and bling for a moment and check out the "filtered lenses in our eye glasses" we all choose to wear- how we choose to see things and how we create our own perspective and reality. Take chorizo . . . It is really unfortunate that this person still chooses to blame the white man for all of the black man's problems. Slavery started with blacks willing to capture and enslave their own people for "blood money." when will blacks take responsibility for the horrible acts they have for centuries committed upon one another? blacks continue to do more to harm other blacks than any other group. . . (just what blood diamonds represent) and provide too little to support the advancement of their own community. Too many black entertainers in america sell out their hood to white production companies and then when they make it- forget all about their people and what they can do to help their people advance socio-economically. This is the message of the film- what all people can do to help these poor black people-excape the horrible suffering brought onto them by other blacks-certainly not buy 3 more bling necklaces as maddog prefers to do now back to jewelry and bling . . . What sort of good might the money spent on bling create in the black community in an effort to support the continuing socio-economic struggle of so many people? blood diamonds should never adorn the body of any self-respecting person . . . And especially black person what is really whack is chorizo can only demean a state

I am not sure why people who didnt see the movie make up most of the comments. Its hiphops promotion of diamonds that is in question here. At one point hiphop was our story, we controlled it, at the time of the corporate takeover is when hiphop changed from a mix of social commentary to boastful materialism to the last decade of not really material boasting but straight selling products. Mtv and bet are worldwide now. Kids in sierre leone watch this garbage. What kind of confusion runs through their minds when they see people who kind of look like africans wearing the diamonds that their family died for. Theres like 20 or 30 million self identified blacks in the us, we are very important to the african diaspora but we need to start realizing that the diaspora is all connected and we are a very small part of it.

It doesnt matter what color ur skin is...everybody buys diamonds..white,black, brown, yellow...and so on. But some people, (sorry black america) just make the damn things seem like theyre the best thing in the world. Im not racist at all i have black friends and when they were their big lunker chains and four finger rings and grills..it kills me...well not me, but kids in africa. I always tell them that they look like a damn christmas tree. U ever see a white guy wearing 300 lbs of jewelry?...hell nooooo! un less its a spoof on snl. When a rapper makes it whats the first thing he does? gets his chain baby! i think its a waist of money. The only jewelry i own is my graduation ring. So here it goes...black people Bia'ch and moan about the hood and how hard it was to grow up in the hood and all that bullsh*t. I bet that if you put 50 cent's ass in sierra leone in a time of war he wouldnt last a second. So when they make it they buy diamonds that probably were mined by a kid that no longer has hands and legs...so next time u see puff daddy's dumb ass in a video jumping around with 300 lbs of jewelry just thing of the 300 africans that died for him to wear that.

I want to show this video to my class on social issues but it is not rated. Does anyone know if there is anything objectionable in it (swearing and violence would be my main concern)? thanks!

I have this documentary, and both chuck and kareem are dropping some serious knowledge about this issue. There's a line in a song called, "see something say something" from pe's new album titled how you sell soul to a soulless people that sold their soul which reminds me of something 20020king said. The line goes like this: from ghana, botswana to watts & queens/ is tv killing black teens and their dreams?/ as far as the term rebel, i have to ask the following question: what the hell kind of rebel refuses to rebel against that and those which rightfully necessitated his/her rebellion in the first place? i have no sympathy, not a drop whatsoever, for those "rebels" who "rebelled" against their own innocent people. I hope they burn in the abyss along with their alabaster masters and all the other non-white lapdogs that supported & still support massa. Rebels were folks like: yaa asantewa, steve biko, the maroons, the angola 6, queen nzingha, pharaoh ahmose (who fought against the invading hyksos in ancient kemet), dinah al kahia, fred hampton, mark clark, bobby seale, huey newton, h rap brown, mumia abu jamal, malcolm x, assata shakur, patrice lumumba (and not the united snakkkes lapdog that replaced him, mobutu), the ethiopian queen candace (mentioned in the book of acts), leonard peltier, the mau mau in kenya, and several others like that whom i bet, many of these new "hip hop" heads don't even know to mention, much less be able to mention the history of hip hop past the cash money bros, soulja