Blood Diamond Awareness - Purchase Conflict Free Diamonds

Please Rate & Comment-Video footage edited by Matthew Leishman. Created for the Media Smarts class in the Department of Journalism & Communication at Utah State Unitversity. Scenes from the movie Blood Diamond and images related to conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone. Purchasing a diamond for the one you love is a special occasion. No matter how sacred and special that occasion is, it's never worth the lives of any man, woman, or child.

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Education

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• blood diamond
• leonardo
• dicaprio
• Djimon Hounsou
• Jennifer Connelly
• Sierra Leone
• Solomon Vandy
• danny archer
• 2006
• Matthew Leishman
• Utah State University
• Media
• Logan
• Utah
• africa
• conflict diamonds
• sierra leone

[Niallersz]

Brilliant fuckn film, Leo is pretty dam good with the accent too

[trk15h]

all humans are equal and have the right to live and the right for respect.

[TheSouthernPsycho]

@trk15h Stuff like that has very little to do with this movie. Apartheid is over (mostly over), but a new crisis is in Africa. Civil war: between the rebels and the rest of Africa, diamonds have a big part to do with that . . . but dose apartheid . . . not really.

[lordgluzman]

@DavidTheCatholic

No I didny mean that they are animals, I honestly ment exactly what you said.

[DavidTheCatholic]

@lordgluzman Yeah but the way you say it is as if the Africans are animals and just like going on mad genocides. No, it's because of social unrest, brought on by the racist, evil, corrupted, white governments. And it's really annoying me because even now, a lot of companies are going to Africa exploiting the Africans and stealing their natural resources, which is wrong, and if I was ever a president of an African country i'd send out all the companies, or make sure they know who runs where.

[lordgluzman]

@DavidTheCatholic

Thats what I ment...lol and you diss me for exactly saying what you are telling me.

[DavidTheCatholic]

@lordgluzman the reason african presidents are so corrupt is because of you white people. Fucking imbecile, who do you think put these presidents in their position of authority. It was all planned.

[lordgluzman]

@TheGarcia350

true to that

[TheGarcia350]

@lordgluzman We will do nothing. Why? Because they will exhaust themselves. The government for so long had been adding more fuel to the flames since who knows how long. Its like a traveling car, you fuel it up and go on to the destination, but if there is no money behind it, it will dry empty. The government is exactly in that stage and they're getting desperate, REALLY DESPERATE. its because of them the economy is falling apart since who knows. I turned my back on the u.s. since 911.

[lordgluzman]

People don’t you see? The governments are corrupted. The white governments make money and hold the economy while sending the weapons to the Africans that they can fight and continue fighting, while the African presidents don’t have the balls to do anything themselves and suck on their thumbs while letting this happen. Its time for every single human to stand up and say ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT! This isn’t only happening in Africa. Its every where. We are in the middle of this war!!!

[gungasc]

Should of added Tosh.O's comment.

[kplns]

the blood that americans will have to wash away by theirs....  Horrible!!