No. of Recommendations: 11
"At the start of the performance, in a Spike Lee-esque double dolly slow motion shot, Bad Bunny says:
“Mi nombre es Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, y si hoy estoy aquí en el Super Bowl 60, es porque nunca, nunca dejé de creer en mí. Tú también deberías de creer en ti. Vales más de lo que piensas. Confía en mí.”
A short translation: “If I’m here today at Super Bowl 60, it’s because I never, ever stopped believing in myself. You should also believe in yourself. You’re worth more than you think. Trust me.”
What is more American than believing in yourself so bigly you extend that empowerment to others? That is why people all over the world have sought to build lives here. We said we were committed to freedom, to the pursuit of happiness, to certain inalienable rights that a government should not be able to give or take as these rights are natural.
When Bad Bunny named the many nations that make up the Americas, it was a call to get over ourselves, the United States that acts as if it is bigger than the world with its administration pushing destruction. He may not have been the Patriot we thought could win the Super Bowl, but Bad Bunny is the American patriot we need.
In Spanish, in English, in the universal language of love, he called on us to remember who we are, that love is always stronger than hate, and in unity we can be free.
Together, we are America. Juntos, somos América." —Jeneé Osterheldt Boston Globe columnist
