Donald Glover & Stephen Glover Push Back Against Criticism That 'Atlanta' is For "White People"

During the TCA Press Tour for the final season of Atlanta, Donald Glover and Stephen Glover spoke about criticism from Black viewers.

Donald Glover and Stephen Glover are speaking out against Atlanta viewers who think the show is “only for white people.” During the show's TCA Press Tour for the final season on Tuesday (August 2), the Glover brothers discussed receiving criticism from Black viewers, some who don't think Atlanta is for the culture.

“To be real, if you’re online, everybody’s gonna have an agenda on some level,” Donald said, according to Deadline. “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. 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.”

The series creator went on to add that Black critics who say the show is against the Black community are “cutting ourselves down.”