This Is America: Your Ticket Inside The Creative Mind Of Donald Glover
A Religious Childhood
When we’re young, it is almost absolute that we will raise under the same religion that our parents believe in. For Glover, this religion was Jehovah’s Witness. And even though that religion holds strict rules against pop culture, his family had a special place for Star Wars. A franchise that he is now apart of.
“Being a Jehovah’s Witness amplified my own alienness,” he told Wired in 2017. “Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate Christmas. You don’t pledge allegiance to the flag. People don’t understand that.” This “alienness” he is referring to could be one of the factors influencing his creative side. Well, that and what you’re about to read next.
