Black History Month Essay #7

My essay is about Laurence Tureaud, but it's Mr. T to you. He is best known for helping people to save money while calling collect, but he is also well known for his infinite compassion.

Mr T was born in Chicago, Illinois. He lived in the rough part of the city so he bulked up and played football, he wrestled, and he studied martial arts. Before he went to serve in the army, he tried out for the Packers, but fate denied him from becoming the coolest NFL player ever.

After returning from his job as a military officer, Laurence rejected his slave name and became a bouncer. He used this opportunity to express his views on gold standard by wearing various chains around his neck.

He was a bouncer for various stars, and he protected all of them well, except for Sylvester Stallone. Their fall-out was brutal and well documented in a feature film. (There is no truth to the smear that Mr. T suckered punched Alf. The details about his meeting with Gary Coleman are still sketchy.)

After this Mr. T's starred in D.C. Cab, a political thriller about the assassination attempt on Reagan. But Mr. T wasn't just a serious actor. He also represented his country at the first Wrestlemania. He and Hulk Hogan triumphed to win the belt from the Russians, and this was a great blow against the crumbling USSR.

Around this time Mr. T was training a diverse group of gymnasts. They had several adventures and the footage of this was rotoscoped for Saturday mornings. The secret of that show was that Mr. T wrestled a different alligator each week. Despite this, Mr. T still found time to star in his most famous role of the decade. That, of course, is as himself in his motivational video, "Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool!"

Impressed producers cast him in The A-Team, wear he starred as B.A. Barracus. B.A. referred to his character's degree, because Mr. T was always encouraging kids to get an education. He also expressed his wise views on the show about airplane security.

At the end of the eighties Mr. T was now starring in T. and T, aka The Bride of Mr. T. Sadly this was Mr. T's last television show for a while because he had a new, deadlier foe to fight in the nineties. Still, Mr. T is known for fighting everybody, so cancer was no problem for him.

In this decade Mr T got a show about helping people. "I Bleed For The Fool" was popular, but a bit too messianic so it only lasted a season. This probably explains the reason why Judgment wasn't a hit, despite the scene where T wrestles with Satan. Then again, maybe audiences felt down that Satan won, even though he clearly cheated.

Mr T has three children, the youngest being T Junior. America has great hopes for him.

In conclusion, next to God, Mr. T has the greatest set of Ten Commandments.