Joe Biden's story of facing down a gang leader at an all-black Delaware pool in 1962 is again being challenged

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Joe Biden's story of facing down a gang leader at an all-black Delaware pool in 1962 is again being challenged
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Joe Biden is being ridiculed over a journalist's retelling of Biden's seemingly heroic tale of racial division about taking on a black Wilmington, Delaware gang leader named 'Corn Pop' in the summer of 1962.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is being ridiculed over a journalist's retelling of Biden's seemingly heroic tale which he's repeated about taking on a Wilmington, Delaware gang leader named"Corn Pop" in the summer of 1962.of him rebuking racial division and has relayed one specific incident detailed in his autobiography of how he supposedly faced down an African-American gang leader for breaking the rules at what he described as an all-black pool.

"I'm always astounded by the imaginings of white people as it relates to race. Many of them have this fictionalized jigaboo version that is almost alien-like. And one of the greatest examples of this ever is Joe Biden's story about Corn Pop the gangsta," Harriot tweeted Saturday. "[The pool] is where it all started," said Joe Brumskill, a former Wilmington school board president who worked on several of Biden's U.S. Senate campaigns, toldHarriot's annotated version of the story also challenges some basic historical facts including that,"Biden says he became popular at the pool because many of the black people in Wilmington, DE had never talked to a white person before. This raised my bullshit-o-meter, so I decided to look it up.

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