I know, I know, we all just wish Bad Bunny—Benito Antonio Martinez Occasion—would grab his penis one last time and haul it away to his burrow where he can play with it all day long—in private. So, I’ll try to make this quick.
The Super Bowl half-time spectacle was not unifying. If it had been, sixty gazillion angry words wouldn’t have been spilled condemning it or condemning the condemnation.
It was an anti-white, anti-border control, anti-(United States of) America spectacle that the NFL paid an estimated $15 million to produce. Singers are not paid, so $15 million was just for production.
It possibly could have been a unifying event. The NFL could have hired celebrities who keep their political views private and who represent racially diverse groups that have contributed to the flourishing of America. After all, it’s not only brown-skinned, Spanish speakers who have helped make this a place to which peoples from all around the world flock in search of freedom and opportunity.
I would describe it as a chauvinistic spectacle. “Chauvinism” is either “an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex,” or the “unreasonable belief in the superiority of one’s own group or people.” All the objectified, young arse-twitching women being groin-ground aggressively by men demonstrate what Bad Bunny thinks about women. Anyone familiar with his lyrics already knew that he views women as inferior, dehumanized tools for his erotic pleasure.
And with the aggressively non-inclusive, for-Spanish-speakers-only performance that hyper-focused on Puerto Rico and brown-skin-only immigration, it was arguably racially chauvinistic. Immigrants from, among other countries, China, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Scotland, and South Africa have made significant contributions in diverse ways to the greatness of America. Why exclude them?
If the goal of the NFL were to unify the nation through an entertainment extravaganza that celebrated the multi-colored hues of all the diverse peoples who have made America great, it could have. Instead, the NFL gave yet another platform to the non-inclusive, mono-views of the entertainment industry who can’t criticize immigration enforcement enough.
Of course, a truly diverse half-time show that celebrated the contributions of diverse nationalities and skin colors would have been controversial to leftist bigots who monopolize our entertainment industry.
Those devotees of diversity and teachers of tolerance do not want to see the descendants of English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Polish, Israeli, German, or South African immigrants celebrated. They want to make endless statements in support of open borders and opposition to border enforcement.
Other than Africans brought over during the Atlantic slave trade, who weren’t immigrants but victims of forced migration, one could make the argument that among immigrant groups, the Irish, Jewish, Chinese, and Japanese immigrant experiences were the most difficult.
I wonder how many American students have been taught how Irish immigrants were treated when they arrived here during and following the Great Famine. Are students taught that the Irish were depicted as ape-like creatures and violent drunks? Do leftist “educators” teach students about the “No Irish Need Apply” signs?
Bad Bunny leaped into a debate originating in the academy—where else—in the 1970s over the term “America” and “American.” This debate critiqued American Studies, an academic movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Proponents of the use of “America” to refer to the North American and South American geographic landmass opposed the idea of American Exceptionalism. Can’t have that idea just roaming around freely, shaping Americans’ views of the country as exceptional. Wouldn’t be prudent to have Americans think their racist, sexist, homophobic, imperial nation is exceptional. (Now Mexico and Puerto Rico are entirely different. Those countries are exceptional.)
So, leftists set about ridding the world of the idea of American Exceptionalism by revising language—the favorite tool of the trade of propagandists.
Then in the 1980s and 1990s multiculturalism, New Americanism, and Critical Race Theory were spawned in the academy, converged, and polluted the public square with the goal of eroding any lingering positive sentiments about America, which included delinking the terms “America” and “American” from the United States.
Leftist academics controlled the academy and, therefore, they are entitled to redefine any term whose denotations and connotations they detest. They’re privileged like that.
While it’s clear from Bad Bunny’s adolescent and stupid lyrics that he is no scholar, it is equally clear that he has been infected with the ideological virus that has contaminated our culture.
But some Americans enjoyed the crotch-grabbing, arse-twerking performance from Bad Bunny, the obscene, woman-exploiting, occasionally cross-dressing, occasionally man-smooching promoter of all things queer. One of those people is, surprisingly, Wheaton College professor Shawn Okpebholo. Yes, that Wheaton College, the former evangelical flagship, now left-leaning embarrassment.
Okpebholo had a lot to say about the performance on his Facebook page—all positive.
I was also really feeling Bad Bunny’s reggaeton-flavored, pro-people, pro-humanity performance. It felt joyful, proudly global, and deeply American all at once. Aaaaad, I think it might be the best produced halftime show in a while: visually gorgeous and beautifully clear in its storytelling.
Not one word about the objectification of women. Nothing to say about the two men seen grinding groins. Nothing about the “artist” Bad Bunny’s promotion of the normalization of homosexuality—something that the God Okpebholo claims to serve abhors. Nothing about the deliberate exclusion of English from a celebration of a distinctly American—er, I mean, United Statesian event.
Okpebholo also condemned the alternative half-time show as a “racist” … ‘alternative’ halftime show” that was “dress[ed] … up with complaints about ‘values,’ ‘lyrics,’ ‘American culture,’ or whatever the latest dog whistle happens to be.”
I wonder how the conservative students of omniscient Okpebholo—purportedly a Christian—feel about his condemnation of the alternative show as racist and dishonest.
The presumptuous leftist Okpebholo picked up his shovel and piled more rhetorical excrement on conservatives:
[L]let’s be very clear about why this [alternative half-time show] even existed. We did not get an alternative show because of “lyrics,” “values,” or “patriotism.” We got it because a significant strain of the Republican Party is so steeped in racism that they would rather elevate a headliner who openly glorifies pedophilia than allow a Spanish-speaking, brown-skinned Latino to represent America on the biggest stage in sports. …
This was never about decency. Their alternative’s lyrics and song titles are arguably worse than anything Bad Bunny performs. And it was never about Christianity either – unless racism, nationalism, and cruelty are now sacred doctrines. Whether dismantling DEl, dehumanizing Black and brown migrants, or excusing racist rhetoric from the president, the pattern is the same: they would rather defend their ideology than confront their own racism – even when confronted with people who use predatory language or have predatory associations, like both Kid Rock and the president.
In his screed, the deceitful Okpebholo didn’t mention that the song of Kid Rock’s to which he was referring hasn’t been played by Kid Rock in a quarter of a century. To be clear, I am not defending Kid Rock’s obscene lyrics.
Meanwhile, Bad Bunny wrote and released the infamous song “Safaera” in 2020 and performs it regularly. For those who aren’t familiar with the song, here’s an excerpt:
She came ready already, ready to brush together
She sucks my lollypop, she gets on her knees, hey…
P*ssy with d*ck, d*ck with *ss (Push it in)
Pu-p*ssy with d*ck, d*ck with *ss, yes (Push it in)
P*ssy with d*ck, d*ck with *ss (Push it in)
Your t*ts rubbing my nipples (Push it in)
Okpebholo accused everyone who found the half-time spectacle offensive or who critique the assumptions of DEI of being un-Christian, racist, and cruel. And Wheaton College President Phil Ryken and the trustees believe he is fit to teach at Wheaton.
Leftist Okpebholo, able to leap tall buildings and discern all motives in a single bound, closed his ignorant Facebook post with one final jab at all conservatives, including presumably conservative Wheaton College students, their parents, and alumni donors:
So yes, we had a halftime dichotomy. On one side, an artist whose genre-bending reggaeton celebrates global connection, family, work, joy, and a truly plural America. On the other, a nostalgia act clinging to a fantasy past built on supremacy and fear — wrapped in Christian language but lived through profoundly unchristian behavior.
Don’t let the mockery of leftists silence you. And please, don’t send your kids to Wheaton College.