Lawrence Tureaud was born the son of a minister, according to People, and his personal faith has permeated his life. In 2007, Mr. T told Beliefnet that he is a born-again Christian. In 2005, that faith caused him to have a personal reckoning with his signature look.
T had, for decades, been known for his outrageous collection of gold chains, saying that they served as a visual metaphor for slavery and his own place in the history of Blacks in America, as TV Acres explained. "I wear gold instead of iron chains ... because I am still a slave, only my price tag is higher now," he said.
But after helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, he was done with the ostentatious display of gold. "As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and their land and property ... I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold. I felt it would be unnecessary and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold," he said, via Sky News.
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