Jake Paul isn’t happy about that video of him whiffing a bunch of pitches ahead of the recent Miami Marlins and San Diego Padres game.
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Donald Glover is addressing backlash surrounding his depiction of the Black community in his FX series “Atlanta”.
Glover spoke about the criticism during the show’s TCA panel on Tuesday.
He said of some of the response to the show, which is set to air the first two episodes of its fourth and final season on September 15, “To be real, if you’re online, everybody’s gonna have an agenda on some level.
“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,” Deadline reported.
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Glover continued, “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 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 musician went on, “I kind of feel like I’m a little through with the culture, personally. I do a lot of this s**t for the people.
“But the culture, I think at this point, I think a lot of us are sitting here being like, ‘Yo, a lot of this s**t was learned because of f**ked up s**t that happened to us. And we actually have to relearn a lot of stuff.’
“So if you’re sitting there being like, ‘Oh, this is misogynoir,’ I’m wondering why you think that and why you think I feel that way when I’m nothing without my people. It’s just kind of wack to me. Some of that to me is just internet people trying to get hot, which is also
Jake Paul isn’t happy about that video of him whiffing a bunch of pitches ahead of the recent Miami Marlins and San Diego Padres game.
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