I Pity the Fool

Why write to Mr. T instead of, say, Santa Claus?

See, everybody knows Mr. T is real. Santa Claus ain’t. So you never know what you’re gettin’ in that Santa Claus outfit. You could have a pervert dressed up like Santa Claus. You could have a child molester. Also, Santa Claus can’t make them visits. Only god is omnipotent and omnipresent – being there at the same time everywhere. So parents are lyin’ about Santa Claus.

I tell people the reason why I never believed in Santa Claus is No. 1, I lived in the projects [Chicago’s South Side Robert Taylor Homes]. There was no chimney. No. 2, if we catch a white man in red suit in a black neighborhood, he’s in trouble!


~ Interview with Mr. T today in the Red Eye