Leonard Pitts: You create diversity by creating diversity

Dear Stephen King:I hope you’ll indulge me as I try to explain something I suspect you still don’t quite understand. Namely: why so many of us were so disappointed with your take on the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations. As the white-dominated and male-centric list of contenders was announced and women and people of color expressed their frustration, you took to Twitter.“As a writer,” you wrote, “I am allowed to nominate in just 3 categories: