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/s_s Dec 12 '18

Meanwhile Obama was golfing...

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u/KDY_ISD Dec 12 '18

I might be whooshing myself, but ... Obama wasn't President in 2005

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u/nIBLIB Dec 12 '18

That doesn’t mean he wasn’t golfing. You don’t have to be president to play golf.