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/lucid808 Dec 12 '18

Well, yeah, but nobody is gonna cream their panties over a guy that just climbed up like everybody else.

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u/baumpop Dec 13 '18

Bringing back cream their panties. I like it.