Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show captured the heart of Hispanic culture and language.
Our culturally egocentric view hinders our realization that “American” applies to all who live in North, Central and South America. This celebration of America was the most authentic in the Super Bowl’s 60-year history.
The blending of ages, vibrations, rich colors and the rhythmic beat captured the spirit of America.
Becoming part of a vibrant community and celebrating love is the good life. Remembering love, old and new, is restorative. Having the famous and the little-known share the same space is democratic.
We recently sat shiva for a dear friend who had asked to be memorialized by the sound of a steel band. The combination of Jewish tradition and Latin music was heavenly.
Few areas in the U.S. have been more enriched by Hispanic culture than South Florida. To witness love and not fear, beauty and not hatred, and dance in harmony to familiar sounds, captured the distinctive character of the place we call home.
Philip Beasley, Plantation
What makes America great
Explain to me how we have a “leader” who sends a racist, disgusting social rant about a former president and first lady.
The silence from him is deafening. But oh my, a Super Bowl halftime show with great energy and people dancing in their seats, tapping their toes and clapping — and there’s a huge uproar, all because it was in Spanish.
I don’t speak Spanish, but I appreciated Bad Bunny’s singing and his enthusiasm.
Un-American? No! We were celebrating the Spanish culture in our country. We are one nation of many, and that is what’s so great about America!
Pat Eland, Delray Beach
Stupidity, or worse
America is the only country that seems to revere the use of one language and one language only: English.
More and more cities are taking away signs in other languages, which shows their pure ignorance about our used-to-be-label, “the melting pot,” or in plainer words, a unifying or bonding of people, instead of the recent buildup of hate.
I’ve heard people comment negatively when they hear people speak Spanish among themselves, as though they were here illegally or it was offensive to them not to know what people were saying. I’m not sure why people feel that way, but as far as I’m concerned, a good definition is pure stupidity, or worse — bigotry!
Linda Gefen, Boca Raton
Why midterms matter
A card with images of Renée Good and Alex Pretti lies among flowers and other mementos at a memorial in Minneapolis on Jan. 27, 2026.
Renaming the Kennedy Center and then shutting it down. Wanting major airports renamed for him. Putting untrained ICE thugs in blue cities and states, resulting in the deaths of two innocent people.
Saying he wanted ICE agents at the Super Bowl — because it was being held in California.
Making big promises about prescription drugs and health care that he can’t fulfill, while the economy falters.
Condoning racism and insurrection, and calling Bad Bunny “an affront” to America who should not perform at the Super Bowl. Saying he wants to nationalize the 2026 election — which should scare the hell out of all good Americans.
The fact that a follower, in a letter to the editor, used the term “libtards” (Sun Sentinel, Jan. 13) and another accuses the Sun Sentinel of stooping to McCarthyism because letters like mine are published gives proof as to just what Trump’s followers are all about. Wake up, America, before it’s too late, and oust the president and the whole of his party in the midterms.
Seth Wexler, Plantation
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