Response To Who Shot Johnny
The last line of the essay, where Dickerson refers to the shooter, I find to be the perfect closing sentence. I think more than just criticizing the actual man who shot Johnny, Dickerson is passing judgment on all of the black men who are like him. The last few paragraphs describe the shooter very specifically, yet she really has no idea that he was or what he was like. I think that this is a very powerful section of her essay in that she is talking about people of her own race in a very negative way. It enables the reader to see how a black woman feels about the ?thuggish? black man. It still strikes me as odd when she writes? ?a non-job having, middle-of-the-day malt-liquor drinking, crotch clutching, loud-talking brother, with many neglected children born of many neglected women.? In this day and age when black people are unfortunately still striving to break even with white America, it find it very odd that she writes in such a way about people of her race. It is defiantly a stereotypical comment about the inner city black male that is depicted in so many ways in mainstream culture, i.e. movies,
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