For the record. 2024 election results by ethnicity.
A record 54% of Latino Men voting for Trump is — we know this from exit polls— because they are against illegal immigration, even though they know the majority of illegals are Hispanic. Reason: the illegals take Latino working-class jobs and drive down wages. Fewer illegals => pressure for higher working class wages. Latinos living legally in the U.S. like ICE. They like illegals being deported.
Bad Bunny's half time NFL show gave us Latinos cutting sugar cane and selling tacos. Latinas twerking butts and pole dancing. Pretty demeaning stuff. Bad Bunny told us all at the recent Grammy’s that he loves illegals and hates ICE. How do Latinos in America, the legals, the citizens, view this? The opposite, I should think. Given their voting record.
The BB show would have been absolutely hammered if it'd come from a white band. Kid Rock say. It’s only not condescending and demeaning, one assumes, because Bad Bunny performed it, he being Puerto Rican and all….
All the half time show was in Spanish, even Lady Gaga. Which is a movement in the U.S. — to make Spanish the official tongue.
My take on the Spanish issue: The extent to which Spanish becomes the common language in America will be the extent to which the American economy stops performing. English is the world language; the international language. The lingua Franca. The language of trade, economy, education and science. It's good to have an international language and it's good for one’s people to speak it. Not to go backwards to making us understand each other less well.
I speak here as someone whose mother tongue was Italian, who learned French and German as a kid, and Chinese as an adult. I'm pro learning languages, Spanish included. Just not as a lingua franca.
So what are they NFL up to? If the average fan doesn’t like Bad Bunny, and even Latinos don’t, then why?
Adam Carolla says it’s to sell the game worldwide. The game already has its American market locked up. Now let’s go for the international Brown market. Well good luck with that, as they seem to be losing the American market, the one they appear to believe is their rusted-on core.
We shall see.
