John Cena’s New Ad Sends Powerful Message About Patriotism

“Celebrate the diversity that makes America, America”, read a caption to a video posted on Cena’s Facebook page.

Yep, huge veiny-armed tough guy John Cena delivers a monologue about patriotism in 2016 – but his version means accepting all Americans regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or ability.

The “We Are America” advertisement is part of the Ad Council’s “Love Has No Labels” campaign. It inspires passionate debate and is more like a badge of honor and for good reason, because it means love and devotion for one’s country.

Cena continued on to encourage American citizens this year to broaden their definition of patriotism. “Love – for a word created to unite, it can also be pretty divisive”, the wrestler says in a new video for the AdCouncil’s “Love Has No Labels” campaign. We know that labels don’t devalue us.

On the Ad Council’s YouTube page, it garnered 660,000 views.

But to Tampa fans of the video, there was no better setting. “Almost like justification of what we always say: that we’re just an accommodating place, a tolerating place”.

John then asks the viewer to picture the “average” American citizen, and then tells them that the person they pictured in their mind are likely not what a real average American looks like. Fifty-one percent are female, so first off, the average American is a woman. Is that what you pictured?

Cena points out that the population of LGBT Americans amounts to more than the entire population of the state of Virginia. In the video, Cena says 9 million Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, and that’s in keeping with last year’s estimate by the Williams Institute, a think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.