In “Who Shot Johnny” by Debra Dickerson, Dickerson recounts the shooting of her 17 year old nephew, Johnny. She traces the outline of her life, while establishing a creditable perception upon herself. In first person point of view, Dickerson describes the events that took place after the shooting, and how those events connected to her way of living. In the essay, she uses the shooting of her nephew to omit the relationship between the African American society, and the stereotypic African American society.
In a clever way to establish creditability, Dickerson opens the passage with a compendium of background information. She uses an ethological approach to describe the intellectual background that she carries on her chest. Dickerson wants the reader to establish a connection between intellect and the black society. She even states, “I do this because I know that those of us who are not well-fed white guys in suits must not yield the debate to them, however well-intentioned or well-informed they may be.” (224). If intellect were strictly given to “well-fed white guys”, the black soc…
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