About Prop Tee

 

Prop Tee is the Black owned creation of Brooklyn based multi-hyphenated artist/entrepreneur, Axel Avin, Jr.

Prop Tee was born out of Axel's need to provide Black owned locally made protest apparel during the summer of 2020. Noticing most Black Lives Matter shirts were cheaply made and that the purchases did not support the movement they represented, Axel set out to offer something new: quality shirts with a simple bold design aesthetic that sent money back to the movement. Though we are currently in the middle of the most important presidential election of our lives, Proposition Tee is rooted in the Black Lives Matter movement and will continue to offer quality apparel to fuel the movement.

The original mission behind Proposition Tee is twofold

First, to create gear that honors those who have lost their lives to police brutality, systemic racism and societal marginalization. They are not to be forgotten, their deaths will not be in vain and we will continue to raise their names until justice is an equal promise for all. The second goal of Proposition Tee is to give money directly to victims' families and organizations fighting systemic racism. The root of racial inequity in America is financial. The average white family in America has 11x the wealth of the average black family. That is to say, for roughly every $110k the average white family has, the average black family has about $10k. This is the stark reality of the black experience in America and we must work relentlessly to erase the wealth gap. The burden of this wealth gap is carried by black and minority communities in every structure of American society, education, health, housing, business and criminal justice. Tackling theses systems is overwhelming and may leave the average person feeling helpless. But there are incredible organizations that have been in the fight for racial and social justice and they need our funding now more than ever. Propo Tee has pledged 10% of sales to be donated to these organizations as well as the families of victims. 

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