The Coke commercial in the Super Bowl ad 2014 had a multi-cultural and multi-lingual theme. The song "America The Beautiful" was sung in seven languages, and the images of different cultures filled the screen, including a family with gay parents.

The subsequent uproar was swift and the magnitude was unprecedented. Twitter has made it very easy to bring opinions online, whether they be for or against the commercial. Conservative luminaries like Glenn Beck quickly went on air and accused the commercial of trying to 'divide the country' (Salon.com).

Of course, there will be plenty who will defend the commercial on its diversity merit. One of them is from the city which Coca-Cola calls home.

From local TV station WXIA, news anchor Brenda Woods took shots against the staunchest critics of the Coca-cola one minute feature. In the segment, "Last Word," she vehemently argues:

"Coca-Cola has always been about inclusion. But the fact that people are outraged over this ad is outrageous itself. People indignant that others would have the audacity to sing 'America the Beautiful' in a language other than English, when America was built on opening its arms to the world?"

She elaborates her previous point by citing the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. Lady Liberty herself is actually from France: "The quote on the Statue of Liberty doesn't say 'give me your English-speaking only, Christianity-believing, heterosexual masses.' It says 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses tempest-tost.'"

She asks a question that served as a timely reminder: "Have we forgotten that every one of us 'Americans' except for Native Americans, are descendants of foreigners? That the English language is from England?"

There was also another issue at play in the commercial, which was drowned out somewhat by the concentration on the multi-cultural aspect. One of the last scenes depicted a gay couple. Thus, there "A relevant question considering the words of 'America the Beautiful' were penned by a gay woman, Katharine Lee Bates, in 1895, an English professor at Wellesley who also wrote lovingly of her longtime committed relationship with another woman."

As of now, the exchange of Twitter and social media barbs continues. It has become more creative and the points of debate have expanded.