For many Black creatives, criticisms from within the Black community are often the hardest to take.
It’s just kind of whack to me.
“I don’t think they give a lot of credit to what we’ve gone through.”
Donald Glover returns for season 3 of ‘Atlanta’.Rob Youngson/FX
But it’s not necessarily what Black audiences are used to in shows about their lives.
Which is kind of the point as Black people and the Black experience is not a monolith.
The latter also premiered in 2016, but had a very different approach to depicting Black life than eitherBlack-ishorAtlanta.
Yet there was room for all of them, and many more shows since.
“They also say we’re making them want to do cooler and weirder stuff…
So for me, that’s the real kind of conversations that are happening out there.
Internet stuff isn’t always real; it’s not how people really feel.
I kind of get my feelings from the streets, to sum that up.”
The fourth and final season ofAtlantapremieres Sept. 15 on FX.
