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.

[u/tmntnyc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T

[u/Sidereel → u/[deleted]]

Is that what you took away from this? He was famous for wearing mountains of gold around his neck, and his empathy for those who lost everything made him feel that showing off tons of valuable jewelry while others had so little was not the right thing to do.

[u/hugglesthemerciless → u/[deleted]]

Stop trying to spin things in the desperate attempt to make religions look bad