This week in guys talking about fights they almost got into
It wasn’t a dream, it really happened. Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Joe Biden’s five-decade career in politics is a goldmine for political opponents or concerned voters looking to dig up quotes that have aged poorly, or were extremely bizarre in the first place.
In this entry into the overstuffed genre of guys talking about fights they almost got into, Biden recalled the days when he was a lifeguard for a public pool in a black neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Speaking onstage at a 2017 ceremony in which the city named the pool after him, Biden described an interaction in which he called out a “bad dude” nicknamed Corn Pop — the leader of a local gang called the Romans — when he was bouncing high off the diving board.
The former vice-president telling a story about a near-rumble with very ’60s weapons — surrounded onstage by confused children — is very clearly a strange encounter. In the context of a primary in which critics are concerned over Biden’s ability to maintain focus in his speeches, the video carries new weight. And for Michael Harriot, the Corn Pop encounter is a perfect anecdote for the “imaginings of white people as it relates to race.
Harriot is also doubtful that any of it happened, due to the details which sound like “some white kid tried to make a gang fairy tale for a sixth-grade play.” But in an example of really owning the beat, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale provided the 2016 obituary of a Wilmington 73-year-old named William “Corn Pop” Morris, and got in touch with former Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams who confirmed that “this is the CornPop of the Biden incident.
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