This essay is a follow-up to my two previous articles regarding Ti Ti and my dentists. Essentially, it all boils down to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). DEI isn’t something that our Orange President endorses. His mindset, as it were, is the polar opposite. Diversity in Trump’s insecure personality doesn’t like people with different Weltanschauung.

White, straight males are universally better than everyone else. Male White Nationalists are the gold standard of his thinking. He and his ditto-heads disown the belief in treating everyone equally. Inclusion muddies the water. The White Nationalist Males are protective of their place in society. In a couple of decades, whites will no longer represent the majority of Americans.

What is fascinating about that mindset is that those without any station in life are challenging it. I have two examples of that grassroots protest. The first one was Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, who was born in Puerto Rico.

When Ocasio was 6, his school teacher selected him to dress up as an Easter Bunny.

The birth of Bad Bunny

During an interview, Ocasio said, “When I was a little boy in school, I had to dress up as a bunny, and there's a picture of me with an annoyed face. And when I saw it, I thought I should name myself Bad Bunny.”

While Ocasio’s experience traumatized a youngster, he was able to use that event as a positive one. It is an example of no pain/no gain. Recently, while thinking back upon that trauma, he used it to his benefit. “It’s a name I knew would market well. A bunny is something so common that I thought to myself, every time someone sees one, they’ll remember my music.”

During the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny used his fame to show white Anglo Americans something about the benefits of diversity. Bad Bunny entertained 128 million Americans in all the Americas. I wonder how many nanoseconds Trump viewed Bad Bunny before he started spewing racist remarks on his social media platform. The following is his musical statement about diversity in the Americas.

Click on the link and go to 12:06-41.

The second bunny was a 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. If Bad Bunny was rattled by being made to wear a bunny outfit, imagine what this young child felt like. Look at his face while standing in the cold with ICE agents arresting him.

A small child with a bunny hat and a Spiderman backpack

Liam and his father were arrested and flown to a detention center in Dilley, TX. Rep. Joaquin Castro visited Liam and his father at the detention center. He observed that the center traumatized all the young children.

Additionally, the family attorney said that the father and Liam had legally entered the US from Ecuador and were following the process to be allowed to live in the States.

Looking back on our history, there are two things that stand out regarding immigration. The first wave of immigrants came from Western Europe, particularly from Spain, France, and England. From the 15^th to the 18^th centuries, each group fought over land rights. Each group viewed itself as the God-given group, and the others were unwanted immigrants. Manifest Destiny was the term used to prove their case.

Not only was there fighting between the groups, but there was also fighting within them. Some of the earliest colonies struggled with diversity. Roger Williams was banished for holding different ideas about the church-state issue. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded for religious freedom, yet Williams was banished for his religious beliefs. That is hypocrisy.

America has never grasped the value of diversity. Diversity creates new ideas and perspectives. The alternative is stagnation.

Bad Bunny’s halftime show.