The horror author said he believes 'judgments of creative excellence should be blind' but that the Hollywood game is still 'rigged in favor of the white folks.”
In a Monday op-ed for The Washington Post, headlined “,” the author attempted to quell the controversy, acknowledging that he’d crossed the line.
“The subject was the Academy Awards,” he wrote. “I also said, in essence, that those judging creative excellence should be blind to questions of race, gender or sexual orientation.”say that was the case today, because nothing could be further from the truth,” he continued. “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.
Notably, King stood by the message of his eyebrow-raising tweet, noting that “judgments of creative excellence should be blind.” Still, he added, “But that would be the case in a perfect world, one where the game isn’t rigged in favor of the white folks.”
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