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Akon didn’t go to school

On buying a diamond mine in South Affrica,

I always felt like if you get to a point where you’ve got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that’s related to a natural resource because that’s gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that’s gonna be here, rather than invest in something that’s gonna wear out. I know for a fact that these are going to be selling forever.

Umm, yeah, natural resources couldn’t possibly run out. The drug dealer turned prophet, a lumanary of such work as Smack That and I Wanna Love You, also doesn’t belive in blood diamonds,

I don’t even believe in conflict diamonds,” he announces. “That’s just a movie. Think about it. Ain’t nobody thought about nothing about no conflict diamonds until the movie came out. Where was all that shit before the movie?

Amnesty International hold a rather different view.

From and 2007 Indi article