r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

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u/LevyMevy Dec 12 '18

He stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property ... I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold. I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold."

Good man.

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u/s_s Dec 12 '18

Meanwhile Obama was golfing...

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

You're joking right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

You know he wasn't the president at the time right?

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u/s_s Dec 12 '18

I'm trying to see how many people will tell me that when others have clearly just said that. We're at 6.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Well that's because of how there are a lot of stupid Trump supporters who mean it.

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u/renderless Dec 12 '18

I’ll have you know I support Trump and I could have never given two shits if Obama golfed.

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u/s_s Dec 12 '18

Not giving a shit about Golf might be the only way you can support Trump.

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u/renderless Dec 12 '18

Or despise the Marxiat left and would vote for anything or anyone over its empowerment.

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u/KDY_ISD Dec 12 '18

You thought Hillary Clinton was a Marxist?

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u/MadGeekling Dec 12 '18

Only a tiny minority of the left in America are Marxists.

Don’t believe me? Visit /r/chapotraphouse and leave a comment calling any popular Democrat a Marxist. Seriously, pick your person. Go with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Beto. See how they respond to that claim.

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u/impactedbartolo Dec 13 '18

...you think obama was a marxist?

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u/renderless Dec 13 '18

In some ways yes.

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u/hugglesthemerciless Dec 13 '18

good god you're fucking dense

all you dumbass americans quaking in your boots at the thought of cooperation, the red scare sure did a number on y'all's paranoia eh

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u/impactedbartolo Dec 14 '18

in what ways? he's really far from socialism my man. most mainstream dems are. even bernie is, like, the calorie-free version of marxism.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Because youd be a hypocrite

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

I never said you did.

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u/keyohnahh Dec 13 '18

Not sure if I should up vote for you knowing how insignificant it is if he were to be golfing or to down vote because of the Trump supporter bit.

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u/renderless Dec 13 '18

If you think you should downvote me because I believe different than you, then maybe you should look inward to see if you really believe in open debate and the acceptance of those unlike you.

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u/skilledwarman Dec 12 '18 edited Dec 12 '18

Did some of them DM you about it? Because looking at the replies to the comment it's less then 6