Donald Glover says he was told by Tina Fey that he was brought onto the writing staff of 30 Rock as a “diversity” hire. Speaking about his career in an interview with GQ, Glover spoke out about the imposter syndrome he felt after being hired onto the NBC sitcom as part of a diversity initiative in 2006. “There is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself… It was a diversity thing,” Glover said. “The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and [Black-ish creator] Kenya Barris.” Glover says he didn’t know he was up against Barris until later, when Barris told Glover: “I hated you for years!”
