Biden recalls take down of ‘Corn Pop’
gang banger — and it’s epic
BizPac Review,
by
Tom Tillison
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/15/2019 7:29:24 PM
Ah, politicians and their entertaining anecdotes.It doesn’t come as any surprise the most interesting story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary features former Vice President Joe Biden.The Democratic front-runner had previously recounted an incident he said happened when he was a 19-year-old college student home on summer break. Biden said he took a job as a lifeguard at a city pool in Wilmington, Del., hoping to better educate himself about the black community, as reported in 2017 by the Washington Post.It was here that a young Biden allegedly had a fantastic showdown with a gang leader named Corn Pop.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 9/15/2019 7:48:41 PM (No. 180840)
Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. It's dubbed "Biden’s Negro Summer Safari Adventure."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 9/15/2019 7:50:38 PM (No. 180841)
O.K. now this if funny. But I have one question, who is Florida Evans?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 9/15/2019 8:04:51 PM (No. 180843)
Florida Evans was the mom on "Good Times," a comedy from the 60's-'70's about a family in the Chicago projects. Except that Florida was played by Esther Rolle, not Esther Williams. Maybe the author should brush up on Black actors and get the name right before he talks about how dumb other people are.
But...in this case he IS correct about Biden being an idiot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/15/2019 8:07:17 PM (No. 180844)
I thought he was talking about Aunt Esther from Sanford & Son.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
comstock 9/15/2019 8:15:53 PM (No. 180848)
Pathetic. I wonder how many times that story has changed in the last 50-plus years.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 9/15/2019 8:42:31 PM (No. 180862)
Shouldn't be too hard to ask around the neighborhood....the local police....old-timers still in the area.....and get the lowdown on Corn Pop. Who was he? Did he really lead a gang to a white swimming pool in Delaware in the '50's? Any other white folks report being threatened with a straight-razor totin' Bad Bad Leroy Brown diving-board-bouncing Mau Mau?
I'm calling bee ess. Never happened.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/15/2019 8:49:22 PM (No. 180864)
Not "Corn Pop!" She was known as "Corn Ho", and she was a member of the Ghetto Swim Club's Synchronized Jazz Team. The "Chain" was a nylon rope and the "razor" was a rat tail comb. Sheesh Joe, you were VP of the United States for goshsakes, get the story right. s/o
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
glcinpdx 9/15/2019 9:28:29 PM (No. 180880)
If you think Groper Joe was tough on old Corn Pop, you should hear his story on how he went Cukoo for Coco Puff...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Tianne 9/15/2019 9:33:28 PM (No. 180885)
Everyone knows that no self-respecting gangsta thug would call himself, Corn Pop Uncle Joe should have said that he donned a cape, flew up to the diving board, grappled with Corn Pop, clutched him around his waist, and flew him away to an urban rooftop where Corn Pop settled with the pigeons, changed his ways, and became a red-body-suited super force for harmony and good.
Now, that's believable.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/15/2019 9:38:46 PM (No. 180889)
“And the next morning, I swear this as a Biden, I was listening to the phonograph playing some cool cat Paul Anka jive while our butler, who was named Ben (so we called him Uncle Ben- I swear to God this is true) served me some Cream of Wheat. I’ll never forget it. He used to wear pinstriped trousers and those white cotton gloves like in the Shirley Temple talkies- I mean movies-and carried a silver tray with the silver dome like what you get in hospitals and really fancy restaurants. And then my dad came downstairs from the coal mines all covered in soot and sweat and he said to me, “Joey? Forget the rusty chain action with Corn Pone. Next time take him behind the bleachers and say, ‘Come on, man. Come on.’ If that doesn’t scare him off then tell old Corn Pone you have asthma and it’s contagious. He’ll believe it if you explain that you got sent to the poor black pool because you’re an asthmatic lifeguard and can’t work at the white pools in case a white kid is drowning and needs a lifeguard who can breathe. And always remember the asthma excuse. It’ll come in handy when you’re of draft age.’”
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daria 9/15/2019 10:44:17 PM (No. 180908)
This article reads like satire. It's not.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Avikingman 9/15/2019 11:32:23 PM (No. 180922)
Walter Mitty.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
rtwngprof 9/16/2019 1:52:30 AM (No. 180956)
"The other lifeguards tried to talk me out of confronting Corn Pop. 'He's dangerous, man, he carries a straight razor.' But I said "we can lose a 19-year-old white lifeguard, but we can't lose any more of these young Afro-American kids to gangs. I have to show them that you can stand up to these cowards.' Because I know how to handle bullies, you smack them right in the mouth. Then fire your shotgun through the door to scare them off."
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/16/2019 1:56:21 AM (No. 180958)
What? No sniper fire?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
web 9/16/2019 3:32:10 AM (No. 180975)
Nahhh. I don't believe it. It isn't credible that Biden, or any demoncrat, ever really cared anything about the black community. What strikes me is how freely the black commentator uses the word "nigga" to his fellow black audience, a word that White folks are never, ever supposed to use.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 9/16/2019 4:16:46 AM (No. 180983)
A legend in his own mind, and I'll bet $100 nothing even REMOTELY like his story ever happened, at lease to Idiot Joe.
And "Corn Pop"......yeah, right.
Joe has been selling his fantasy stories for so long he has no idea what he made up and what is true any more. Mostly the "ate breakfast, went to the bathroom, ate lunch" sort of stuff is true, pretty much ALL the rest of his stories are made up.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/16/2019 7:00:03 AM (No. 181028)
I started crying from laughing as I read this. My point of reference is that I was the only white-boy garbagemen that the City of Little Rock had during the summer of '72. While eye-opening on occasion (slap fights with razors held between fingers), I wasn't doing it for "racial healing;" it was the best-paying job the City had for me at the time. Had any of the dudes I worked with read this article, I suspect they would have fallen out laughing, too. "Biden’s Negro Summer Safari Adventure," indeed!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/16/2019 8:58:43 AM (No. 181142)
This would have happened in 1961. Somehow I don’t think that there were gangs or gang leaders with rapper style names way back then. Chalk up one more Biden lie.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ebenezer 9/16/2019 12:12:58 PM (No. 181345)
Did Biden say if he called the guy "Esther" because of the Sanford and Son character? Joe Biden was born in 1942, so he was 19 in 1961. This was long before Sanford and Son came on the air.
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