Thread by @michaelharriot

Bad Bunny should be proud to join the long list of America-hating, Marxist Super Bowl performers whom conservatives hated.

A thread.

About 1/3 of people who watch the Super Bowl are outside the US. In 2026, the NFL will play 9 games in other countries

But according to conservatives, "wokeness" is the only reason why the NFL would have a Spanish-speaking artist headline the halftime show.

Oh, wait:

But the halftime show is an AMERICAN tradition that features AMERICAN performers, not foreigners from places like Puerto Rico

@grok is Puerto Rico part of of America?

@grok By the way, no one has performed in more halftime shows than Cuban-born Gloria Estefan, who has performed in Spanish in THREE halftime shows.

@grok So when did the Super Bowl halftime show get so woke?

Well... the first six Super Bowl Halftime Shows would've been called "DEI" today, because HBCU bands (Grambling, Southern & FAMU) performed at the first four halftime shows.

@grok In 1975, Grambling was back to do a "woke" tribute to "America's most important composer," who the FBI had investigated for his involvement with Antifa, commies & refugees

Unfortunately, that Un-American Marxist never saw the show

Duke Ellington died six months earlier.

@grok In 1993, the NFL moved the entire Super Bowl out of Arizona because conservatives in the state refused to honor another Marxist who had attended a communist training school.

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@grok To be fair, prior to that year, the Super Bowl halftime show had gotten so boring that a group of Black guys had their own halftime show

It was so popular that the NFL said: "We should do what the Black guys are doing."

So they called the most popular artist in the world

@grok Janet Jackson was going to headline the halftime show in 2002.

After Sept. 11 2001, the NFL decided to honor the American victims of 9/11 with an amazing tribute by an all-American band...

From Ireland

At least they didn't sing about a Marxist America-hating leftist

@grok The 2006 Super Bowl was in Detroit, home of Motown Records.

THey hired a great American band for that year...

The Rolling Stones.

Now here's an untold story that started 60 years earlier about that Super Bowl

@grok In 1945, a group of Black women employed at the American Tobacco Company went on strike for equal pay. In order to win the strike, they knew they'd need the support of the white women who worked at the factory

So they taught them a song that they'd sing at the end of every day

@grok This created a problem. It was easy to weaponize racism against Black groups, but what would they do about this multi-racial coalition of union activists?

American Tobacco was literally the biggest oligopoly in the world, which shared one HUGE propaganda budget.

@grok As the strike spread to factories across the country, the ATC used its money and clout to paint the labor movement and the activists with another blemish:

Un-American communists.

@grok But the strike was so effective, the WHITE WOMEN were invited to attend the Highlander Training School, a place where union organizers and activists learned to form grassroots movements

They taught the song they'd learned from the Black women organizers...

"We Shall Overcome"

@grok The Highlander Folk School became the symbol of un-American communists. Congress investigated it. A lawyer who supported it even lost his job at the DOJ and had to move to Ala.

One day, his seamstress was telling him about a meeting she attended about the Emmett Till case

@grok He paid for her to go to Highlander for the summer. When she came back, she suggested that her pastor should go

Yes, Rosa Parks sent Martin Luther King Jr. to that un-American school for commies

@grok Anyway, when that strike happened, the NFL was all-white. So when Cleveland's football team moved to Los Angeles, a group of Black sportswriters had an idea.

They were gonna integrate the NFL

@grok How?

Well, the new Rams were going to play in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. And the LA Tribune's Black sportswriter Halley Harding played in the Negro League, so he knew the stadium had an obscure rule that didn't allow racial segregation

@grok So the Rams drafted Kenny Washington & Woody Strode. But the NFL owners made a "gentlemen's agreement" to only field 2 Black players per team.

So when the AFL started, they drafted Black players. It was so exciting that the NFL was losing ground.

@grok Plus, the civil rights movement forced the NFL's hand, so they began drafting more Black players.

Now, when Rosa Parks heard about that Emmett Till meeting, she was the secretary of the NAACP. After the Emmett Till trial....

@grok She'd read this scathing letter from a Detroit preacher condemning the NAACP for not doing enough. Then the preacher began raising money for Mamie Till to travel around the country and build a national "civil rights" movement.

@grok The activist reverend was considered the best preacher in America. Second place wasn't even close. So, in 1963, the preacher held a march that was the biggest civil rights demonstration in American history.

No... not MLK

Rev. CL Franklin...

Aretha's daddy

@grok So in when the NFL had its first Super Bowl in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a HBCU band, it was definitely woke...

And at the 2006 Detroit Super Bowl, people were outraged that an un-American band was performing, the NFL did something about it.

@grok Since they'd already booked the Rolling Stones, they got Aretha Franklin to sing the National Anthem.

But just before she performed, the NFL held a moment of silence.

@grok They honored 2 people who had been under FBI surveillance for years for un-American activities and communism.

@grok All of that pales in comparison to the most un-American song ever sung at the Super Bowl. It's a little ditty about how America's violence and how this country treats its own citizens.

@grok Anyway, Bad Bunny is in good company