Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Why not the Colombian flag, also?

Looking back at the halftime show during the Super Bowl, I remember Jennifer Lopez displaying the flag of Puerto Rico during her performance. I have nothing against the Puerto Rican flag, it is beautifully modeled after the Cuban flag. Moreover, I am Cuban and I like both flags (Cuba and Puerto Rico). However, I like the American flag more because of all it represents to many, as well as myself. I think it's probably better to have displayed the American flag in the Super Bowl alone, but that's just my opinion. Shakira also performed equally during the halftime show, and the flag of Colombia was never displayed. Maybe I am wrong, but it seems disrespectful to Shakira to not display the Colombian flag, as well...not that Shakira seems to have minded. She seems humble enough to not have made an issue out of it. In fact, Shakira seemed very happy to be performing for such a huge audience. At one point during the show, Shakira seems to have climaxed in overwhelming joy which manifested naturally, and she suddenly sangout a zaghrouta! Obviously, that she seemed joyful would probably be an understatement. Now, allow me to go back to the flag of Puerto Rico.

The following is a bit of history of the flag.

"Juan de Mata Terreforte, an exiled veteran of "El Grito de Lares" and Vice-President of the Cuban Revolutionary Committee, in New York City, adopted the flag of Lares as the flag of Puerto Rico until 1895, when the current design, modeled after the Cuban flag, was unveiled and adopted by the 59 Puerto Rican exiles of the Cuban Revolutionary committee.[3] (Wikipedia)."







References:

Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico". enciclopediapr.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico

1 comment:

  1. The following link is to a relevant story.

    https://stream.org/an-open-letter-to-jennifer-lopez-and-shakira/

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