Stephen King Says “Oscars Are Rigged In Favor Of White People”
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Recently, celebrated author, Stephen King was criticized for his tweets about Oscar’s categories he was tasked with nominating.
“I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong,” the 72-year-old tweeted.
However, the “IT” author is now explaining his comments and taking a different angle, in a new op-ed for the Washington Post, King writes that the Oscars “are still rigged in favor of white people.”
“I stepped over one of those lines recently, by saying something on Twitter that I mistakenly thought was noncontroversial: “I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” The subject was the Academy Awards. I also said, in essence, that those judging creative excellence should be blind to questions of race, gender or sexual orientation.”
“I did not say that was the case today, because nothing could be further from the truth. Nor did I say that films, novels, plays and music focusing on diversity and/or inequality cannot be works of creative genius. They can be, and often are. Ava DuVernay’s 2019 Netflix miniseries, “When They See Us,” about the wrongful convictions of the Central Park Five, is a splendid case in point.”
He also adds that we do not live in a perfect world and that We don’t that “this year’s less-than-diverse Academy Awards nominations once more prove it.”
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