Buffalo Soldiers circa 1903
Oh Buffalo Soldiers, where have you gone? Do they not remember that you fought in the War for America? Do they not know that you sacrificed for something that was not your own? Freedom. Not your freedom but the freedom of a country, a nation that might become one. You where taken from Africa for the War in America.
Fightin' for survival, fightin' on arrival.
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.
Fightin' for survival, fightin' on arrival.
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.
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Isn't it ironic, though, that the Buffalo Soldiers were enjoined to kill Indians in New Mexico and Colorado? My stars.
Have you heard the storyu of Cathay (or Cathy, depending) the female Buffalo Solier who posed as a man to get the gig? Legend, truth, so many versions. Google her, if you haven't.
There are different groups who re-enact the Buffalo Soldiers.
September 27, 2009 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And still they didn't seem "loyal" enough. What did they and what do we have to do?
I have heard stories of women putting on male-drag to fight in the War of the States.
September 27, 2009 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
that is timeless, the trans dressing. I mean where did joan d'arc come from
I read about sailors--females as sailors under cover so to speak.
But thank you for the post. Did not know anything about them.
September 27, 2009 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I was just watching that special on PBS last night about the Buffalo Soldiers! I learned so much from it.
September 28, 2009 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lest we forget, our Congress, Senate and Supreme Court were re-acquired by Southerners within a single generation AFTER the civil war.
Before that war of liberation, they ruled DC for decades, until the mass indignation of the North moved them to defy Slave Power (still alive and well, manifest today as "corporate power") and end that profane hypocrisy.
So it is no surprise that our "officials", the majority of them still longing for the antebellum era that had been snatched so ingloriously away, refused to recognize black soldiers in any official capacity?
Even today, the are derisive of any race but their own, in their smoke-filled golf club lounges.
September 28, 2009 1:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
How do you keep a people down? ‘Never' let them 'know' their history.
Keep telling that history; read some great military history.
The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn't for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry. Read the book, “Rescue at Pine Ridge”, and visit website/great military history, http://www.rescueatpineridge.com
December 28, 2009 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink