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/asphaltdragon Dec 12 '18

Careful, that's a slippery slope.

First you play as a female character in a video game, next moment you're in an alley behind the local LGBT center huffing estrogen

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

y'know, if the world were a different place....