Its narrator, an adolescent named Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson, who expertly treads a line between naivete and precocious wisdom) learns a valuable, heartbreaking lesson in the stakes of his decision-making while working in a Missouri brothel.
It repeatedly embraces the messy sacrifices that come with such a mission for Black and white alike, illustrating its attendant moral and ethical costs rather than papering over them. The series is a darkly comic, layered romp through the last years of John Brown’s life, leading up to his famed ride on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in the pursuit of ending slavery. Now they can add a new limited series to that inspirational slate as well: The Good Lord Bird, an adaptation of James McBride’s 2013 National Book Award-winning novel of the same name, which premieres Sunday night on Showtime. At some point you become smart enough to realize what’s special.As the country continues its ongoing reckoning over race and white supremacy, white people, in overwhelming numbers, have sought out books to aid in their education about how, literally, to be anti-racists. Someone was giving you vegetables when you were starving for ice cream and cake. … At some point you realize that history makes you better and you realize the gift. I just prefer to stay with the jalopy that got me here because for all it’s faults, and there are many, it’s still the place you can turn to, and that’s certainly been the experience in my life.
Either you get in the jalopy that took you there, or you get out and walk, or you jump into the brand new Tesla that’s going down the road. Yes, there is a tremendous amount of hypocrisy in the Black church, but you have to make a choice. That’s true for any group, but certainly for African Americans. I’m standing in a place where I’m always welcomed and that welcomes me. I’m the creation of a world that made me strong and healthy, and so I’m standing where it’s safe. I don’t care about that stuff because it’s not part of the world that created me. I’m not one of those guys who goes to literary meetings and worries about who is the hottest and who reads the hippest magazines.
No matter what I do, it makes me strong and impervious to criticism.
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