Nicholas Sparks is facing damning new accusations of homophobia and racism
Nicholas Sparks. Photo: ROSDIANA CIARAVOLO/Getty Images Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks is making headlines, but not for one of his saccharine love stories, per usual — instead, he’s facing damning new accusations of homophobia and racism.
From here on out, it’ll be hard for Sparks to argue otherwise: On Thursday, the Daily Beast obtained and published some of the incriminating emails Sparks sent to Benjamin. In them, he opposed the formation of an LGBTQ club and insisted that his school’s lack of diversity wasn’t his fault. “About the non-discrimination policy you keep bringing up: please remember that sexual orientation was NOT in there originally, and that the only reason it was added was that YOU insisted it be specifically be added,” Sparks wrote. “Frankly, no one but you wanted it in there … If possible, we might be able to change it back to what it was before.”
And Sparks’s answer to an assertion that Epiphany Academy isn’t diverse? Well, it’s simply not his fault.
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