Big Picture - Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center - June 26, 2017
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- City Pool Complex Named for Former Vice President Joe Biden
Biden was a youth lifeguard at the former Prices Run Park pool (today known as Brown Burton Winchester Park); the pool facility was dedicated today as the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center
Former Vice President Joe Biden today returned to the pool facility where he was a lifeguard as a young man for a ceremony naming the Brown Burton Winchester Park pool and poolhouse complex as the Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Aquatic Center. Biden has spoken often about how important it was for him, as a lifeguard at the pool, to build relationships and develop concepts that served him well throughout his career of public service.
The City of Wilmington, largely through the efforts of 3rd District Council Member Zanthia Oliver and former 3rd District Council Member Darius Brown, decided to commemorate the former Vice President’s early years at the pool facility by naming the entire complex in his honor. Through signage unveiled today at the front and rear of the pool bathhouse facility, the complex will now be known as the Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Aquatic Center. The facility was renovated several years ago to become a LEED-certified environmentally reconfigured facility, one of the City’s first efforts to reduce the government’s carbon gas emissions by 20% by the year 2020.
Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki hosted today’s ceremony which included remarks by Council Member Oliver as the district representative, Governor John Carney, Senator Margaret Rose Henry, who also represents the area, and Delaware’s Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester. Also attending the ceremony was Senator Robert Marshall, Representative Helene Keeley and Richard ‘Mouse’ Smith, former NAACP President, who met Joe Biden when he was a lifeguard, leading to a lifelong friendship. City Council Members Va'Shun Turner, Ciro Adams, and Rysheema Dixon were also present for the ceremony at the 26th and Locust Street park.
In addition to the new building signage, a small plaque was affixed to one of the pool's lifeguard chairs designating the chair as the, “Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Lifeguard Chair” ensuring that the values and interpersonal skills developed by the former Vice President during his time as a lifeguard will be memorialized forever at the City pool complex.
John Rago
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Communications
Office of Mayor Michael S. Purzycki
Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center FULL VIDEO
Good God, I love coming back to this treasure. It's AMAZING how many people have no clue this exists.
I just got into a Facebook argument with a blue piller saying it’s so fake and trumpers are so gullible 😂. I’m like “omg”. Here’s what’s interesting: The entire media world bands together to hide everything bad Biden has said and show everything good. They bam together to show everything bad of Trump and hide everything goid. And I do mean the entire internet. And yet… Biden still looks worse. Omg😮 what are we not seeing is what I want to know?!
30:45 That awkward moment when Bad Lip Reading doesn't even have to change the words.
31:15 "The men who are now all men, the guys I worked with down here, and they were all guys at the time, they were all good men."
lmao. I've watched this 3 times now, and just now caught that thanks to you. This is better than a Ben Stiller movie😂😂😂
"I love kids jumping on my lap"
24:03 "Hey all the kids, do you want to come up here and listen?"
I LEARNED ABOUT ROACHES
Isn't this how a perv initially goes about getting on the sex offender registry?
He was a white teenager, lifeguard, at a public pool with only black boys. I doubt he was interested in any of them.
@@marklasvegas6816 They probably had sisters Mark, and besides the fact he didn't say "loved" he said, "love" which means like currently, and hopefully as soon as he's able to sit down and sign some autographs for his peeps in the 'hood.
Those poor kids!! "I'll tell you one more story on the way out". No. Please. please don't.
18:25 for context
For those only hear to watch Biden's speech, he begins talking at 24:00
luis rodriguez you saved me lol
Incoherent ramblings.
In all fairness Mouse's speech is just as entertaining as Joe's. His starts at 14:20
No you should listen to more, it's not fair: some context is helpful.
Bad idea. If you do that then Joe sounds like a madman. This speech has been used out of context many times in order to make Biden look crazy, sadly. It makes perfect sense when seen in context.
Honestly? I have a uncle that spins these incoherent yarns of the past. I too have Hairy legs.
Watch 24:00 to 35:30 for the complete context. His story makes sense. A couple hiccups but nothing crazy.
And this is why I go to the source! I check context of the whole thing before making an observational assessment and then I decide! I was already looking at where joe spoke and then looked for the start and then look for what joe was referencing and thanks to you I have even MORE clarity. Thank you very VERY much! I appreciate ya!
@Goodmoove 36 a good Aussie source for you: ABC's Planet America. Great, balanced analysis. Entertaining, too.
Scumbag repugs are using an edited clip to make Joe look insane. As you said it makes perfect sense IN CONTEXT! I could piece together a bunch of clips that could make Trump look crazier than a bag of hammers, but I have too much class.
So all this makes sense if I watch the whole video huh?
So he thinks of kids as roaches jumping in his lap? Time to close this down now.
I think he was just saying he learned about roaches because it was a poor mostly black neighborhood. It was separate from his love of little kids jumping up and down on his lap. I think when he said that, he was just giving them more heads up on what's expected of them later when he's signing autographs😳
@@Rick-the-Swift The black guy who spoke before him is who brought up the roaches. THE BLACK GUY. And it was about actual roaches, not kids! Joe is just acknowledging.
@@em7dim9That's what they want you to think.
@@patrickdixon7202 Riiight, suuure it is. The Delaware NAACP president says "I said now if a roach comes on you" (points to shoulder), "... if the kids come up in your lap... just smile and say 'everything’s gonna be all right'”. Now I don't know your IQ nor your education level, but a reasonably intelligent person should be able to see the connection between what both speakers said. I'm no fan of Biden but people at least need to criticize politicians for things they actually do, not just engage in right-wing fantasies.
Not all kids…
Everything this man says is black and white. He makes it a point to make sure everyone knows he is white, lol. He couldn't describe one person without using race. He sure has a lot of bad stories about black men. I just wonder, who swims with a straight razor in their pocket? I am calling bs on that whole story, and kinda upset he would make up a story like that to make black people look bad back then.
IKR. In my mind Biden could easily be the captain of the ship in the movie "Roots". Look at how he commands the kids at 24:53, and then him bragging about physically threatening "Corn Pops" just because he wasn't wearing a swimming cap and Joe suspected him of wearing Pomade? Wtf Joe, smh.
Like any other person who sees them self as superior, he showed no sensitivity for the kid back then, and still shows none today. I truly hope Corn Pop and his family(If there is one) aren't able to hear this garbage.
What I can't believe is the Dems can't see that when it's plain as day.
"What I can't believe is the Dems can't see that when it's plain as day."
What I can't believe is that you think you can speak as if you know what you're talking about when you clearly didn't watch the whole video. If you had you'd realise that two other people told versions of the story before he even spoke and he was just expanding on what they'd been talking about and that the problem wasn't that the kid wasn't wearing a swimming cap, but that he was jumping up and down on the board which was against the pool's safety rules. You also might have heard 22:59 where the former NAACP president called out attitudes like yours.
@@emergencyCALL911 lol The lady, a politician, was just repeating the story from the clown's book. The guy who was old enough did not back up the clown's tough guy crap at all.
This is why, you prepare a speech lol.
We are all dumber for listening to these incoherent ramblings. May god have mercy on our souls.
Hahahahaha Classic.
Haha, Billy Madison!
I actually feel smarter. I'm just glad I finally know who this 'CornPop' dude is everyone keeps talking about. I'd be pissed and hurt too if someone yelled at me the way Joe did at him for not having a hair net on. And Joe never even apologized for threatening to drag him off the high dive in front of all his friends. I'd actually like to see CornPop deliver one good kick to Joe's nuts for his insensitivity towards others- especially young blacks in the 1960's!
Typical politician looking for every photo opportunity, calling the kids the stand behind him. He got a chance to put his hand on a little girl, too.
CORN POP WAS A BAD DUDE, LOOK AT THE KIDS WISHING THEY DID NOT GET ON STAGE.
What the hell is he talking about? He's cenile.
Which speaker? There's quite a bit of senility to go around. I'm not even sure of what I'm watching.
Your sickening,
@@ruffian518 you're
@@ruffian518 Don't belittle someone for a minor spelling error -cenile- senile, at least he is observant!!!
Bro can you even spell
“ Joseph H. bottom “!!!! Lol😂
Learned about roaches?
it was in reference to what "mouse" said at 18:25
14:39
"Don't Tell em everything now!"
Who the hell is this guy? Is he senile too? I can barely follow his story about Joe and "corn pop."
Just checking to see if it was legit. WTF He really said it!!! The WHOLE speech is a disgusting mess.
Same here, I couldn't believe it, but it's true.
What? He was responsible for many people not having a shot with the crime bill. Also, a guy admitting he was guilty for a crime he was convicted for after languishing in prison isn't surprising. especially when he had a guy visiting him and making him feel guilty.
The guy he defended who beat and robbed a sailor was a great man. Jeez
He had character.
Damn straight 👊🏾
28:27 "And Cornpop was a Bad dude!....And he ran a bunch of Bad Boys!"
Here's a cleaned up transcript starting from 25:37.
The point I want to make is: I owe you all. I owe this neighborhood. I learned so, so much. I was a kid from suburbia, I lived out in Mayfield on a split-level home with my Grandpop living with us and in a three-bedroom home of four kids, my grandpa. And folks, when nineteen… it's a whole hundred years ago, but I was a senior in high school, and Presicci he turned out to be a great athlete in in at University of Delaware, but I was runner-up the state scoring championship here in football, I wasn't bad either. And… but I wanted to… I wanted to get more involved. And I realized I live in a neighborhood where I’d have to turn on the television, and I'd see and listen to Dr. King and others, but I didn't know any black people. No, I really didn't. You didn't know any white people either. That's the truth.
So I wanted to work here. And there's my daughter, Ashley. Come on up here Ash. And so what I did was I came down and I... I applied the city of Wilmington for a job and for- I was the only white employee here, and I learned _so much._ I learned so much. I learned that folks that I work with, like Spencer Henry and Lafayette Jackson and a whole range of people - Jamie Rolls - a lot of great, great, great people were my fellow lifeguards there’re 13 of us. I learned that… they treated me… they treated me as an equal - we used to go - in what was not as modern as that - we used to go in the key room, at lunchtime after a free swim, and sit on the floor, because it was nice and cool. And member Boom Boom Cannon and a few other guys who worked here well as well. And we sit there and we talk and they’d ask me questions. Because I _really was_ the only white guy they _really knew._ And they’d ask me questions… about everything- I mean things that I- that startled me.
I remember one time, I won't mention which lifeguard, said do I ”have a jerrycan, a five-gallon can for gasoline?” And I said ”No, I don't”. I said, ”but what’d you need it for?” He said ”I'm going down- we're going down and see my grandma in North Carolina. We can't stop at most gas stations. They won't let us stop at most gas stations.” I learned… I learned a lot. And I learned that… it makes a difference.
This was the diving board area… and I was one of the guards, and they weren’t allowed to swim- it was a three meter board… if you fell off sideways you landed on the dams- the darn cement over there… And Corn Pop was a _bad dude,_ and he _ran_ a bunch of _bad boys._ And I did, yeah, ye- and back in those days, to show you how things have changed… One of the things you had to use if you use pomade in your hair you had to wear a bathing cap.
And so he is up on the board, wouldn't listen, and I said: ”Hey Esther! You! Off the board or I'll come up and drag you off.” Well, he came off. And he said I'll meet you outside- my car- this was mostly these were all public housing behind you. My car- there was a gate out here. I parked my car outside the gate. And I- He said ”I'll be waiting for you.” He was waiting there with three guys and straight razors. Not a joke! There's a guy named Bill Wright-Mouse, the only white guy, and he did all the pools. He was the mechanic. And I said ”What am I going to do?” He said ”Come down here in the basement, where mechanics- where all the pool filler is… You know the chain- there used to be a chain that went across the deep end. And he cut off a six-foot length of chain, and he pulled up, and he said "You walk out, with that chain… and you walk out of car and say 'You may cut me, man, but I'm going to wrap this chain around your head.'” I said ”You’re kidding me”. He said ”No, if you don't- don't come back” and he was right! So I walked out with the chain… and I walked up to my car and they had, they had most days- remember the straight razors, you had to bang them on the curb, get ’em rusty, put them in a rain barrel, get ’em rusty… And I looked at him. But I was smart then. I said, first of all I said ”When I tell you get off the board, you get off the board and I'll kick you out again, but I shouldn't have called you, Esther Williams, I apologize for that.” ”I apologize” but I didn't know that that apology was gonna work. He said ”You apologize to me?” I said ”I apologize, but not for throwing you out, but I apologize for what I said.” He said ”Okay”, closes straight razor and my heart began to beat again.
I came down here because I remember the first bumper sticker I saw that made me aware. When I was in law school proudly for Holloway probably for your dad first African-American state senator in the state of in the state of Delaware. Everything about…
And by the way you know I sit on the stand. And it get hot, I got lot- I got hairy legs… that, that, that, turn… blonde in the sun. And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool, and rub my leg down, so it was straight, and then watch the hair… come back up again. They’d look at it. So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap - I loved kids jumping on my lap - and I tell you what… the men - they are now all men - the guys I worked with down here - and they're all guys at the time - they're all good men, most of them made a lawful lot of themselves and Earl Larkin had a rough time.
30:44
Whenever I see clips and soundbites on news feeds and memes, I also search for the full clip to see the complete context. Biden is off the rails. I just knew his jumble talk was just stitched together for laughs but sadly, that's not the case. His marbles are rolling out of the bag! *CORN POP 2020* :-(
green eggs and ham
Stop, people don't want context, it ruins the legend.
He is disjointed, at best.
I don't believe the corn pop story. sorry Joe
23:50 His good friend Mouse whom he loves dearly calls him Joseph H Botton.
Thank God it's being honored maybe?
LOL @ 31:07 he still refers to little black kids as "roaches." That one left the popular vocabulary around 1965.
18:29 strongly suggests otherwise
I despise Biden, but I've ALWAYS known there was context to the "roach quote".
Now I finally know what it is.
I despise being manipulated with snipped video clips and out-of-context quotes.
Both sides do it, and it's disgusting.
Trump2024🇺🇸
14:29 "Leave, everybody." 23:50 "Pressen Joseph H. Botton"
Woooow
What I really would have loved to see, is the _extressions on the faces of the kid's mothers,_ as Joe rambled on. I imanage it was somewhere between astounded, WTF and horrified!!!!!!!!!!! 🦵?🦵 Anyone know how many children drown while Joe was a lifeguard?
probably quite a few...
Thd ad is sven for JOE BIDEN
Where is CORNPOP at today?
The real Corn Pop died the previous year.
french, lol, "Get the fuck off the board, Esther."
Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center:
"Come swim and rub leg hairs."
Guy must be black? He voted for Joe.
Where do they talk about Corn Pop?
28:27.
I'm watching you Joe!
Corn Pop you are a bad man lololololl
What and what???!!!😂 what is his point?
Just what the fuck are we talking about here?
24:53 Look at the way Joe is able to command the black community like a boss. I imagine while he served as lifeguard if he said "jump" they'd say "how high". Now that's the way black folks outta be led, and if they don't listen, he'd grab him by the short and curly's and drag them where they need to go. Biden 2020✊
EDIT: I was actually being a bit sarcastic in my reply above. In my mind, Joe could have played the captain of the ship in the movie "Roots"😕
Pomp
Joe trying to be sexy with his shirt unbuttoned. 😢
and then there is this j-off
God. Help us I. Did. Not. Learn. Anything. From. This. Ramblings
24:10 This is how j.b. handles his award???
Total shitsack.
OMG my good God .... all you people are SICK! ... this Man has a Heart & Compassion for everyone .... he will fight for whom ever needs his help .... Unlike the the piece of S#%%^$# that is in the White House .. You go Biden! Love your Heart & Soul!!!!
wow you are just a wonderful person aren't you.... Biden doesn't care about any of those people hate to break it to ya
@@Trumplican .... YES I AM .... UNLIKE YOU!
@@angelauzdilla2362 and Im guessing you dont care if there might be voter fraud we should just accept Biden right?
@@Trumplican ... look there was NO voter fraud! .. but why is it humm back in 2016 trump didn't even have 270 ELECTORAL VOTES and fox news and others call him the WINNER, plus again he didn't have the popular vote AND Hilary the next day conceded WHY WAS THAT OK? And boy you guys where on that train NO PROBLEM WITH THE VOTING OR THE TV NEWS SAYING HE WON BEFORE HE EVEN HAD 270 ELECTORAL VOTES. And then all you told US quit your whining Trump won.... NZOW tRump has less votes in some states then Hilary had, she NEVER said that REPUBLICANS was committing voter fraud. She conceded told trump congratulations and she wish him good luck!
@@angelauzdilla2362 how are those gas prices?
wow These are "leaders" ??
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In plain site & we voted for him to lead our country as President. I am just as guilty as you & my regrets just keep mounting. Never will I make that mistake again. No more main street Media, none of them. I am ashamed & disgusted of what, in particular CNN & MSNBC, had me believing about myself & my country. Only independent journalists that have a record of integrity for me from now on, if I even have that opportunity again.
ok grampa time for your nap
Is this the place where he killed Cornpop, and where he started calling Blacks the N word? Does anyone know what happened to Esther, after joe went up to the diving board and pulled her down by her hair?
I find it hard to understand what Mouse or whatever his name is is saying, about Corn Pop and all that. I can't make out the enunciation. It takes a while. It's worth it: good, interesting words. But hard to decipher.
Yeah, I had a hard time understanding Mr. Richard "Mouse" Smith too! It seemed like he was missing some teeth? I don't know. But yes, after a few listens I could make it out more.
I don't understand, though, what he meant by, If a roaches jump[s] on you... If you get a mayonnaise jar filled with Kool-Aid.." ("mahnase")..
I get that a nice big jar is a good way to slug down some ice-cold Kool-Aid. But is that related to the roaches? I'm thinking that's a way to lure cockroaches off of you? But I guess he's just telling Joe, just be chill about all these things. This is our environment and our culture. Brush off the roach. Get a big mayonnaise jar and slurp a cool drink out of it. And tell a little kid that everything's going to be alright: they might be worried and want reassurance.
(He went to a lot of trouble for Joe.
I never saw a cockroach till I lived in the city after college. (Could that be?) ...)
@@cockeyedoptimista I think they're referring to the slang meaning of French (=swearing). As in "Pardon my French, but..."
@@petersmith7577 Oh: of course! I must have been half asleep. Pretty thick-headed of me. I think I was not really listening because I don't even remember that part.
Joe is a boring speaker.
30:45