Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty



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Look at the two following images: 

The image on the left is from the graphic novel, “Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

The image on the right is from an article in Time Magazine in 1994.

Both are images of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer. Yummy was real; he was a little boy who hung around with a gang stealing cars and shoplifting, all while still keeping a teddy bear hidden in his room, he was a little boy who mistakenly shot and murdered a young neighborhood girl instead of  a gang rival, and he was a little boy who at the age of eleven was then shot and killed a week later by the gang he killed for.