Bob Marley began to work in the song in 1978, after reading about the black American soldiers decorated in the late 1800. The issues that the song "Buffalo Soldier" talks about are directly related to its title. This song refers to the Africans (who are the "Buffalo Soldiers") brought to America that where forced to fight against the Native American Indians. The Amerindians probably saw a relation between the huge honored animal with thick hair and the brave and stalwart Africans wearing dreadlocks. Buffalo Soldier is a reflection of Marley's life and the class discrimination he witnessed while growing up in Kingston, Jamaica. Throughout his life Bob Marley was deeply troubled when men where not judged by their character, but by their skin color, and the amount of money they possessed.

The song is dedicated to all the Afro-Am

We can see the struggle of the black race in the movies we see or in the news we hear. Movies like "Menace II Society" show how the black community in America is still struggling to survive within a society that oppresses them. This is what bob Marley transmits in his song, the constant "fighting for survival" of his people, the descendants of Africans "in the heart of America."

is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned,

Certainly, African Americans have been fighting up until today for an equal treatment. Abigail Bakan summarizes in her book Ideology of Class and Conflict, why many African Americans still remember the injustices of the past vividly. "The majority of this population are the descendants of African Slaves, forced to leave their villages some two hundred years ago to labor on plantations for white masters. Today the legacy of slavery is still very much a part of popular consciousness, especially in Jamaica."

This song also makes a recount of how the Buffalo Soldiers where brought to America by force, in order for every listener to learn a little bit of the actual story.

fighting on arrival, fighting for survival."

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