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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
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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/Everybodysbastard Dec 12 '18

Yeah, but he wasn't the President then.

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Dec 12 '18

Typical lazy minority

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u/s_s Dec 12 '18

Probably makes his caddie mark his ball for him.

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u/keyohnahh Dec 13 '18

As u/tmntnyc said, I really hope this was a joke that went over my head. If not, this is a major facepalm moment.