Who Shot Johnny
Who Shot Johnny? Debra Dickerson’s story, “Who Shot Johnny?” is about her nephew being shot for no apparent reason by a youth criminal. ... ” Then she points out how Johnny’s shooter use to shout, “Hey, baby, gimme soma that boodie! ... What Dickerson was trying to explain to us in her story is that every black person in America is not like Johnny’s shooter. ... Here, we assume that she’s not from a community where someone would get shot. However, later in the story, she talks about her experiences in the neighborhood with Johnny’s shooter. ... Near the beginning, she tells the story of how Johnny was shot. ... Then he took aim and shot my running nephew in the back.” Next, Johnny is taken to the hospital where “the doctors can’t, or won’t, say whether he’ll walk again.