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WHY DID CONGRESSMAN CLYBURN INSURE JOE BIDEN’S NOMINATION?
A previously untold story explains why one of Congress’ most influential Black Democrats endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in his bid for the Democrat Presidential nomination on virtually the eve of the crucial Super Tuesday primaries, thus assuring Biden’s unexpected electoral success against a favored Bernie Sanders?
Veritaspac’s investigative reporting staff has the story. And it is in Congressman Clyburn’s own words, as we were told by an anonymous CNN fact checker*.
The full story behind Biden and ‘Corn Pop ‘
According to Mr. Clyburn, the story goes back many decades, when the South Carolina congressman was a teenager.
“I was kind of ‘problem’ teenager, Clyburn reveals. And one summer, my Momma sent me to live with my Auntie in Wilmington, DE.
“While there I got mixed up with a pretty rough crowd. For some reason, by mid-summer, I had become sort of the ‘gang’s’ “leader”.
“One day we were hanging out at the city’s black neighborhood swimming pool. And, as we did at that time, we were horsing around, and generally causing trouble with the pool’s other patrons and the staff.
“But there was one kid, a white kid, not much younger than us but quite a bit smaller in size than me and most of the guys in our gang. He was a lifeguard at the pool. And he came over to where we were acting up and he told us to ‘cut it out’
“Well, as I said, we were a pretty tough group then, and when this kid told us to ‘cut it out’ or he’d ‘throw us out’, it didn’t go over too well.
“So we left the pool but decided we’d teach that white boy a lesson. So we waited for him outside. When he came out after the pool closed, me and some of my ‘homies’ were there. I didn’t intend to hurt him but we wanted to scare him so bad he’d never “diss” us again. So I had a straight razor that I took out with the idea that he’d be so frightened he’d run off and never come back to the neighborhood again.
“Well, this kid didn’t scare. Instead, from behind his back he drew out a six foot length of chain and dared us to take him on.
“We were all shocked at the guts this kid had, and we immediately turned around and walked away.
“But that’s not the end of the story. The courage and fearlessness that white boy showed that day changed all of us in that gang. It may sound corny but that boy on that day set us all on the straight and narrow.
“Eventually, one of those gang members became a distinguished medical doctor, two more became college professors; there was one who would one day serve in the United States congress.
That was, me, James “CornPop” Clyburn, Democrat Congressman from Sumter, S.C., the ‘leader’ of the gang that a soft-spoken, young life guard, named Joe Biden, faced down that day in 1962!
We all said at the time: “That skinny kid is gonna be Vice President Of the United States some day.” dlh
*As if there were such a thing
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But first the video which we didn’t make up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LVhg3Eork&feature=emb_title
