‘Atlanta’: Donald And Stephen Glover Address Criticism That FX Series Isn’t For Black People—TCA
deadline.comDonald and Stephen Glover addressed criticism from the Black community that their hit FX series Atlanta isn’t for them during the show’s TCA panel on Tuesday.
The show’s fourth and final season is set to premiere on September 15. “To be real, if you’re online, everybody’s gonna have an agenda on some level,” Donald Glover said. “It would be silly to say that sometimes what people say doesn’t affect you because—especially being Black —I feel like a lot of the Black criticism bothers me only because it sounds like [it’s from] Black people who don’t really know what we’ve been through.
I don’t think they give a lot of credit to what we’ve gone through. So to be like, ‘Oh, these Black people hate Black people or these Black people hate Black women.’— I’m like, It’s such my it’s such a small view of who we are.
I feel like it might even be because of what we’ve been through that you look at us the way you look at us.” He added, ” I kind of feel like I’m a little through with the culture, personally.
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