"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Christian White is an everyman, as in "every man who would likely want to see this movie anyway."
Which brings up an interesting hypothetical about diversity and inclusiveness: is the obligation to be diverse and inclusive universal, or does it center on things that are not enormously niche-specific? To wit: every year we see think pieces and debates on the necessity of minority and queer voices in popular music, with issues of race and sexual identity looming large in the hip-hop world last year, and the pop world the year before that. But no one ever asks questions about the necessity of, or lack of, LGBT or POC in country music, which is not traditionally known for its queer or nonwhite following.
Does this whitewashing and straightening make country music intrinsically racist and homophobic, or is it just what it is, and nobody but Darius Rucker and (allegedly) Keith Urban wants to join the club? Ever since leaving grad school with a certification in Women, Gender and Queer studies, these questions boggle my mind every day.