For rulers abroad, the Puerto Rican people were mostly a nuisance to be managed. But despite all of this, Boricuas found ways to thrive. They created their own music, food, oral traditions and businesses, forging a fiercely resilient and joyous culture that has now been exported to the world. And Bad Bunny, in just a few minutes of television, communicated all of this: the oppression, the ingenuity, the joy of his people. Eighty years after the government made it illegal to fly a Puerto Rican flag or sing a patriotic tune, there was Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, proudly waving that flag and singing his proudly Puerto Rican songs, surrounded by Latinos carrying their own banderas on America’s biggest stage.