It occurred to me recently that a lot of folks who proclaim to be activists, whether in verse or actual, um…action are still wearing diamonds, and lots of them. For example, Puff, the “Vote or Die Guy” rocks boulders while Kanye, the great *liberator* of Hip Hop this year (whatever), says in his song “All Falls Down”:

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack/ And a white man get paid off of alladat.

Funny, since mostly white hands also run the diamond industry, at a cost of thousands of black lives and limbs a year. Folks who wear diamond studs might as well have a black arm hanging off one ear and a black child’s foot suspended from the other.