They loved pranking Biden. The cost to enter the pool was 10 cents, but a tiny, smack-talking teenager known as Corn Pop wanted to try a way to get his friends in free: distract the white lifeguard.
Corn Pop got Biden's attention by talking about his mother, Smith recalled. Biden blew his whistle and demanded Corn Pop show him some respect. Meanwhile, Corn Pop's friends jumped the fence, hopped into the water and laughed over their declared victory.
"They were testing him," recalled Maurice Pritchett, known as Marty, who served as a lifeguard on the shift with Biden. "He had to earn their respect."
Biden has said he was the only white lifeguard there at the time, but his friends from the pool recall that there were a handful of other white lifeguards on staff. Most had stopped working at the pool as more black kids began using it. The construction of Interstate 95 and other urban renewal programs in the late '50s led to displaced black families moving east and settling in a nearby housing project known as the Bucket.
I like my men built like a cereal box. Me-ow
politics twitter and left really have a hate hard-on for Biden. OP Twitter is the same one who called Omar a blatant antisemite and considers himself a left leaning politico for reference
Careful, you'll get called ageist for not wanting a senile old white man running the most powerful country in the world.Why is there a minimum age to run for President, but no maximum age? ffs
"Dont speculate on his mental well being"
Yeah! Stop making fun of my grandpaThis is just like reporting on what Trump says literally. How about, I dunno talking about his policies vs other candidates?
I actually followed that story. I just don't know why he was telling it.
does corn pop sound like a real person's street name?Are you guys for real?
Even with only this clip I understood.
When he became lifeguard at that pool, some local "though kids", one named Corn Pop, wouldn't listen to him and wanted to fight him. Corn pop waited for him at the parking lot after his shift. Biden asked the mechanic who worked there what to do, the guy gave him a chain to fight with. When Biden got to Corn Pop, he didn't back down but apologized to him for how he talked to him, so he got Corn Pop's respect who put away the folding razor blade he had (which, Biden says, they used to contaminate with rust to make cuts more dangerous).
Eat some crow.