Mos Def enlightens his audience when he says: "The death camps need blood to pasture the cash cow / It's a numbers game, but it adds up somewhere way they do not return" (22-23). “Death camps” refer to the sites in Cambodia where hundreds of thousands of people were brutally murdered and buried in the late 1970s. In this case, “extermination camps” allude to the various industries in which they exploit countless workers through excruciatingly poor working conditions and starvation wages. The term “cash cow” describes the immensely profitable livestock industry. Here, “cash cow” describes the exceptional ability of major industries to profit from the exploitation of low wages and unsafe working conditions. By “grazing” we mean the cows that feed on the land. In this case, “graze” illustrates that America's major industries feed on those they are exploiting. The American economy and the industries on which it depends are responsible for profiting an overwhelming number of people, and as a result have created a pyramid system in which the executives at the top earn most of the money, while those who do the most I'm from work