‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is White Allyship Done Right

The antebellum series serves as a case study for properly retelling Black liberation by avoiding White messiahs

Tirhakah Love
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5 min readNov 18, 2020

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Tirhakah Love
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African from Texas• Staff Writer at LEVEL • Black politics, Celebrity interviews, TV & Film Criticism • Previously: MTV News, San Francisco Chronicle