Explication Essay on Mr T. by Terrance Hayes

1. Stage name of bodyguard-turned-actor Laurence Tureaud (b. 1952), who first rose to fame as a star of the 1980s action-adventure series The A Team and the film Rocky III (1982). His boast I pity the fool became a popular catchphrase. 2. Born Lincoln Theodore Perry (190285), Stepin Fetchit is widely regarded as the first African American movie star; he became famous and controversial in the 1930s by repeatedly playing the same stereotypically simpleminded character. 3. Hip-hop dancers or breakers. John Henry: American folk hero portrayed as an enormously strong railroad worker who dies from exhaustion after winning a contest against a steam-powered drill.