• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Fun fact, Mr T chose his name because white people kept calling his dad “boy”.

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      I can believe it! I’ve also heard that ‘man’ as a way of casually addressing someone emerged out of black people resisting the way black men got called ‘boy,’ and that it later made its way into mainstream culture.