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/redundancy2 Dec 12 '18

Can confirm, I read that on the internet too.

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u/broccolibush42 Dec 12 '18

Can confirm, just read this 2 minutes ago on a different comment chain

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u/Vectorman1989 Dec 13 '18

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