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🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Donald Glover just can’t be stopped. After making a name for himself in TV and music, the multi-hyphenate powerhouse has now launched Gilga, a huge, new production company. But in a new interview with GQ, Donald talks about how his whole career got kickstarted when he was a “diversity hire” on Tina Fey’s hit sitcom “30 Rock,” and how happy he is that he didn’t get a job on SNL.
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| 0:00.0 | So Arecha, I think everybody wants to be hired for a job based on, you know, |
| 0:11.2 | actual talent and skill. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | And because they're the best person for the job. |
| 0:16.0 | But as we know, there are plenty of other factors that go into deciding who gets the job and who doesn't, especially in the bullshit world of |
| 0:25.1 | Shobis. Yeah, I mean if the rumors are true, we wouldn't have gotten this job |
| 0:31.6 | if we didn't have somebody being like, no, they're actually good. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, hire them. Well, we were hired based on talent, though, thankfully, right? |
| 0:40.2 | Well, but they wanted somebody else more known than us. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm an asshole. |
| 0:46.4 | I don't even know who they are. |
| 0:47.4 | Where are they now? |
| 0:49.6 | But one of the other ways people can get jobs |
| 0:51.8 | is through a company's diversity hiring program. |
| 0:54.6 | And of course we've all heard about diversity hires. |
| 0:57.3 | But what we haven't really heard is an A-list celebrity be like, yeah, I got my job because I'm diverse. And that's until now. So in a new interview with |
| 1:06.0 | GQ, Donald Glover says that he was told point blank that the reason he got his first network |
| 1:11.4 | writing job was because he's black. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah and since then there's been no stopping him. |
| 1:16.8 | He's an absolute powerhouse. |
| 1:18.9 | He's an actor, he's a writer, he's a producer, he's a creator, he's's a musician list goes on and on yeah and nowadays he's |
| 1:26.0 | also being someone who hires people yeah I don't know how that rolls off the |
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