Something cool happened in San Antonio on Friday night. Before a rather unremarkable Game 4 of this year’s NBA Finals, a young boy named Sebastian De La Cruz trotted onto the court and the crowd went wild. Dubbed “The Boy with the Golden Voice” after his competitive tenure on America’s Got Talent, the kid is the archetypal national anthem singer: theatrical but not cheesy, he hit the high notes and held the low ones. Sporting a black and silver “charro” outfit, the Latino boy sang the Star Spangled Banner in front of nearly 19,000 people like he had done it a million times before (or maybe just once.)

Two days previously, de la Cruz performed our country’s national anthem before the previous game of the Finals as well. Following the performance, America’s most intelligent tweeters took to the Internet and expressed their concerns. True Americans such as @THE_GREAT_WHITE were confused as to why a “little beaner” is singing our country’s national anthem. Why should the son of an immigrant sing the anthem of a country of immigrants? Who gave this Mexican-American the right to sing for a country comprised of 17 percent Latinos?

But other than the realization that people on the Internet have less discretion than intelligence (or maybe it’s the other way around), I realized something a little more significant that night. The 2013 NBA Finals is the first sports championship in American history where the two cities represented have a population with a Latino majority. With percentage populations of 63.2 percent and 50.6 percent respectively, San Antonio and Miami have two of the largest Latino communities in the country and apparently the two best basketball teams.

Now there isn’t an especially strong correlation between quality basketball teams and Latino population (only 4 percent of NBA players are of Latin descent) but there may be one between diverse populations and economic growth.

As became evident with last year’s presidential election, the racial face of America is changing. Barack Obama was able to win a second term in office with the help of 71% of the Latino vote (which makes up 10% of the total electorate.) America’s white population is shrinking very rapidly and without a young, industrious class of immigrants, our economy will not retain the edge it has over older countries such as Europe, Japan and China. This current edge is much in thanks to the 14 million immigrants (55 percent of which are Latino) that came to America legally and illegally between 2000 and 2010: the largest decennial influx of immigrants ever.

Unfortunate for @THE_GREAT_WHITE and company, the surge of diversity isn’t going to stop any time soon. Bipartisan immigration overhaul will inevitably pass and bring with it more Latino citizens and more money.

So sure, it’s cool that Sebastian de la Cruz was able to ignore the hateful comments made against him and yeah, good for him for hitting every note in the Star Spangled Banner perfectly. But we need to look at the bigger picture: this golden-voiced Latino boy is a herald of good-tidings in America. And get ready Tw-idiots, because his voice represents the mainstream voice of America, reason and commerce far more accurately than yours does.