Bob Marley's Redemption Song Analysis

Lift up yourself from mental slavery not but ourselves can free our minds”.
Bob Marley Bob Marley’s redemption song is emphatically a protest against discrimination. He used his music to bring to the forefront the oppression of the people of African descent. Burke (2014) explained, “Marley advocated freedom for all people and in “Redemption Song,” Marley sang “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/ none but ourselves can free our minds.” Marley called upon the individual to rid him or herself from the constraints prohibiting freedom”. “The United States population has increased and is consistently growing. We live in a society of cultures and subcultures that are rich with differences. The more we are exposed to, learn about, understand, and tolerate that which is different from us, the more harmonious a society we create,” Manvell (2012). Discrimination and harassment are two negative fractions of the workplace and has been going on for years now, from the very existence of the human race to the

Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Mrs Herx filed a lawsuit against the Catholic School at which she was employed. She was diagnosed with a medical condition which makes it difficult for her to conceive therefore, she and her husband decided try In vitro Fertilization (IVF) for which the first rounds were unsuccessful. To do these rounds of treatment Mrs. Herx had to use her sick days. This took about a year (2009-2010) to which her teaching contract was renewed for the school year 2010-2011. Nearing the end of the school year (2010-2011), Mrs. Herx was informed by the school that they were not renewing her contract for the school year 2011-2012. The school cited improprieties related to church teachings and law. Mrs. Herx then sued the school base on gender discrimination and filed the case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It was ruled that the Diocese had discriminated base on gender and Mrs. Herx was awarded $1.9