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Selena Gomez and the Hispanization of America

Pop culture is one of the most powerful forces shaping people today. From teenagers to adults (think of 40-something women trying to be Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives MILFs and cougars), pop culture shapes the way people want themselves and their lives to be. Even more importantly pop culture is both an indicator and shaper of the way the broader culture is going. That is why those across the Right make a grave mistake simply writing it off without engaging it whatsoever.

Working for a local suburban before and after school program at the elementary school in the morning and the middle school in the afternoon was where I noticed this. At the elementary school I was introduced to Dora the Explorer. This Nickelodeon cartoon is easily recognizable as pro-Hispanic legal and illegal immigration propaganda. The creator of the show has admitted as much. More intriguing was what I was introduced to at the middle school: Wizards of Waverly Place. This Disney Channel sitcom is about a family of wizards living on Waverly Place in NYC. Here’s the kicker: they are a mixed family with a white father played by David Deluise and a Hispanic mother played by Marie Canals Barrera. Their children are older brother Justin, middle sister Alex, and youngest son Max. Justin is played by white actor David Henrie. Alex and Max are played by half Hispanic/white Selena Gomez and Jake T. Austin respectively. Both are very Hispanic looking. The thing about this set-up is that there is no mention of the fact that they are a mixed family. There is no Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner moral crusade to legitimize the fact they are a mixed family, it’s simply taken for granted.

Instead the show focuses the adventures and misadventures of the kids as they learn magic from their wizard father and later in wizard school. The obvious Harry Potter inspired scenario works extremely well. The episodes I watched with the kids had (pardon the pun) their own magic. The kids laughed at the jokes and were delighted by the spells. All the creative aspects: jokes, characters, and special effects were what they cared about. Like the creators intended the racially mixed family was taken for granted by them. Moving on to other jobs and activism I forgot about the show.

During this past summer I started watching the show on my own. Selena Gomez is a much bigger pop culture figure than she was when I was introduced to her at the end of 2008. After hearing her single “Who Says” I decided to start watching with an eye more critical from activism. Wizards of Waverly Place’s lack of overt racial politics makes its subtle ones more effective. First off all the white characters are dweebs. The white father keeps up the idiotic father motif so prevalent today. While not as bad as Peter Griffin of Family Guy or Homer Simpson of The Simpsons he is still seemingly dim-witted, clumsy, childish, and goofy. The older white brother Justin is the worst: socially inept, fashionably challenged, a tattle tail, a brown noser, and the butt of all Alex’s jokes. What about the other two kids? Little brother Max has all the typical foibles of a little brother and is for the most part harmless, a comic character but nowhere near the walking laughing stock Justin is. Now we get to the star Selena Gomez. Alex is fashionable, rebellious, often quick-witted, and spoiled (she’s daddy’s little girl). The contrast with Justin couldn’t be more clear: he’s a total loser and she’s so cool. This contrast is also clear with Alex’s best friend Harper played by white actress Jenifer Stone. Harper is the male Justin: she’s unfashionable (despite trying so hard to be), unrebellious (she’s constantly nervous of Alex’s schemes), and studious (unlike the lazy slacker Alex), in other words she’s a dork. Harper also isn’t presented as pretty as Alex with her slightly chubby baby fat. The characters present a picture of whites foolish and Hispanics stylish. But this is tempered by the fact all the characters love and support each other, making all I’ve described subtle and unconscious. Combined with the already mentioned lack of drama about being a mixed family the show effectively normalizes the Hispanization of America for kids today.

One of the most interesting things to come out of the show was in its direct to cable movie that premiered on the Disney Channel a couple months ago. The basic plot is that while on vacation in Hawaii, Alex has a fight with her mom and accidentally cast a spell so her parents never met. Now Justin and Alex must locate a secret cave on the island which contains a stone that cave reverse the spell while Max must keep their parents from meeting other people before the kids disappear (since their parents never met). The subplot of the movie is that a wizard must give up his magic powers in order to fall in love with a mortal. And this is exactly what the white wizard father does to fall in love with the non-wizard Hispanic mother. It is a perfect allegory for what is happening today: white America is giving up what makes it it in for the Hispanization of America.

Beyond Wizards of Waverly Place Selena Gomez symbolizes the Hispanization of America in pop culture in other ways. First off she is being made to represent the new girl next door. With the exception of Taylor Swift, white female pop stars are total whores. Starting with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera when I was in middle school to Katie Perry and Kesha today, the increasing whoredom of female pop stars is undeniable. Selena Gomez is different. While she is an undeniably pretty and attractive girl, her songs and image is not that of whoredom. They come off as young, lively, and girlie without descending into the snorting coke before getting banged in the bathroom stall image of Kesha. Any parents with standards of decency would rather have their daughter listen to Selena Gomez than the others. White female pop stars symbolize a decadent and dying white America whereas Selena Gomez symbolizes a young and vibrant Hispanic America.

And of course there is her relationship with Justin Bieber. They are the golden couple of teen pop today. In the minds of millions of white girls she managed to get Justin! A Hispanic girl! There must be something cool and beautiful about them! The biggest teen pop couple is a Hispanic/ white one and no one notices. Whereas still to this day black/ white couples can raise eyebrows, people don’t even bat an eyelash at a Hispanic/ white one. Is there any greater pop symbol of the Hispanization of America?

Pop culture is important and must be talked about, especially when it comes to the Hispanization of America. While I don’t think Selena Gomez is a raving La Raza type but a typical teenage girl living dreams of stardom, she is a pop symbol of the Hispanization of America.

[From "The Cost of the Union: Tranny Wins in NOVA"]

The cost of the Union’s continued existence and the subjugation of Dixie was on full display this week as Third World immigrants, Blacks and Northern transplants elected a tranny to state office in northern Virginia. Democrats are euphoric.

The Washington Post reports on the mentally-ill man elected by the coalition of non-Whites and transplants:

Democrat Danica Roem ousted longtime incumbent Del.?Robert G. Marshall (R) Tuesday, becoming the first openly transgender elected official in Virginia — and one of very few in the nation.
The race between Roem, 33, and Marshall, 73, focused on traffic and other local issues in Prince William County but also exposed the nation’s fault lines over gender identity. It pitted a local journalist who began her physical gender transition four years ago against an outspoken social conservative who has referred to himself as Virginia’s“chief homophobe” earlier this year introduced a “bathroom bill” that died in committee.
—Roem outraised Marshall 3-to-1, with nearly $500,000 in donations, much of it coming from LGBT advocates and other supporters across the country. She and her supporters executed an aggressive ground game, knocking on doors more than 75,000 times in a district with 52,471 registered voters, sitting for endless public appearances and interviews, and maintaining a steady social media presence.

How did this disaster happen? Breitbart explains that the demographic replacement of Virginians with Third World immigrants strongly aided the process. Breitbart is calling the Old Dominion the “New California”:

A remarkable transformation is underway in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The birthplace and final resting place of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson—and once one of the most reliably-red of red states—is being rapidly turned into a progressive stronghold.
These changes are not the result of an inside agency, or a natural evolution in political thinking, but rather the result of one of the most impactful yet least-discussed policies of the federal government.
Each year the federal government prints millions of visas and distributes these admission tickets to the poorest and least-developed nations in the world.
A middle-aged person living in parts of Virginia today will have witnessed more demographic change in the span of her life than many societies have experienced in millennia.
A census study entitled “Immigrants in Virginia,” released by University of Virginia (UVA) researchers, documented the phenomenon: “Until 1970, only 1 in 100 Virginians was born outside of the United States; by 2012, 1 in every 9 Virginians is foreign-born.”

The cost of the Union is literally the death of Dixie. Transplants are able to flood areas like northern Virginia, changing the culture and politics of the region. And vast herds of Third World immigrants are brought in, nearly all of them voting for Leftist, anti-White candidates. Southern symbols come down. Leftist policies are adopted. Men in dresses who think they are women are voted into office. Violent foreign gangs run wild on the streets. This is the sad story of how northern Virginia was destroyed. It is because of the Union.