I thought Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was joyful and brilliant.
If you haven’t seen it yet, his performance closed with a litany of blessings for America, as people carried flags from every nation in North and South America. “God bless America,” he started, and then he named every one of these countries, closing as he held a football that said, “We are America.”
In the background, a banner read, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
Bad Bunny expanded the “we.” People from all of these countries have lived in the United States and contributed to it. But what I loved most is that he cast a vision to expand how we define the word America. This was joyfully subversive.
And I wonder, in a variety of contexts, how do we need to expand the “we”?
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