
===CORN POP CRITICAL EXEGESIS===
first, the fabula:
1. a young, Joseph R. Biden becomes the lifeguard at an integrated community pool (a rarity at the time)



There are 2 highly contextual story elements endogenous to the chronotype of early 1962 Wilmington. Biden, in recounting the story in 2017, stresses their peculiarity-"And to show you how things have changed,"
He's not talking about race relations, but Pomade.

Pomade was a water-based styling gel made from lanolin, beeswax, or petroleum jelly, and was popular (along with hair relaxer) in 1950s-60s African-American young men's fashion.
This detail is not simply "cosmetic', but ironically integral to the story's main conflict.

Although popular imagination attributes more "natural" hairstyles to the '60s, pomade was still in vogue as a styler, as William Morris--AKA "Corn Pop" illustrated. However, it's the likely conjunction of Pomade and some unknown chemical relaxer, which sets the stage:

At the time, hair relaxing or a "perm" invented in 1906 was a treatment popular in Black communities as a way to straighten hair with by chemically "relaxing" the natural curls, using a strong alkali, usually ammonium thioglycolate or even formaldehyde, every 8-11 weeks.

a perm is ruined by water, necessitating here, a Swimming Cap


it's absolutely critical to understand that although Corn Pop was indeed by all third-party accounts, "a Bad Dude", young Joseph Biden was absolutely the instigator of this conflict, as his reflection in the story's 3 sequential episodes, reveals progressively:
Corn Pop violates a minor safety rule on the pool's diving board. Having presumably had his hair relaxed and pomaded, is wearing a swimming cap.
And while for new lifeguards diving boards are an item of frequent accidents and special anxiety..

however, while story itself is dependent upon a host of highly contextual and historical elements, its dramatic impetus of the story notably does *not* follow from any of them but instead,
5. Biden publicly rebukes, humiliates Corn Pop, derisively calling him "Esther Wiliams"
Esther Williams was a competitive swimmer and hollywood starlet quite famous in the late 40s and 50s, and in 1962, a household name

yet what is critical at this affective, contextual juncture is Biden's crude analogy--the association of her signature swimming cap, and Corn Pop's own

not only did biden overstep his authority as lifeguard--unwisely and unfairly choosing to publicly shame and punish where mere discipline was necessary to enforce reasonable rules...


Biden, panicked, seeks out Bill Wrightmouse, a pool mechanic, who immediately furnishes him with a 6-foot length of chain to use as a weapon, along with its own bombastic flavor-text:
"You may gut me, man, but I'm gonna wrap this chain round your head."

Biden seeks him out for help in defusing and/or avoiding the confrontation he has provoked with Corn Pop...
to Biden, this is out of character for wrightmouse, who was for biden, a trusted elder and presumably a Cooler Head
the hypothetical imperative posed by the supposed mentor here is significant, but only in its careful ambivalence...
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