The team behind the brand & viral movement, Black Men Deserve to Grow Old, wants to officially send condolences to the family & friends of Tyre Nichols. We extend our help, support, and platforms to help spread awareness against violence (especially Black Men). As we approach, Black History Month, we want to encourage our youth and elders to join one another and challenge systems that keep us at a disadvantage.

The founder, Mia Jaye, had created a viral brand dedicated to fighting police brutality and Black-on-Black crime. As the fiancee of the late rapper, Young Dolph, who’s a fellow Memphis native, this hit home for her company. BMDTGO was started as a way for Mia to honor and memorialize what started out as just her brother but resulted in her honoring her fiancé and father of her children.

“It breaks my heart to hear about another Black man’s death publicized, leaving the world to leave its commentary, judgment and BLAME… leaving behind a fatherless child, forced to find their way in this cold world…” – Mia Jaye

As thousands of Memphis residents attended Tyre’s funeral yesterday, we couldn’t help but ask ourselves, have we done enough? Have we taken individual responsibility to protect our black fathers, spouses, brothers, and children, especially from one another? Our mission is to create fashionable streetwear apparel and donate proceeds from every sale to our BMDTGO Cares Fund. The fund helps individual families impacted by intraracial violence crimes and to amplify the voices of grassroot organizations that align with our objectives. When you think of BMTGO, think of clothing that sparks change.

To support or make a purchase at www.blackmendeservetogrowold.com

Mia Jaye, the founder of The MOM•E•O brand and visionary behind the “Respectfully MOM•E•O” social cause advocacy, initiated the Black Men Deserve to Grow Old campaign after losing her brother to black intraracial crime in 2020. After her brother was shot and robbed at his place of business, and later died Mia realized how common violence against members of the same race is prevalent within the black community. In November 2021, Mia tragically loss her fiance and the father of her children to the same act of violence that she experienced with her brother and what started out as a social cause campaign ignited into a streetwear advocacy brand. that invites the entire black community to advocate for the men of their community to live out their life in full and positively impact the Black Community.

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MISSION:

• To create fashionable streetwear apparel that addresses black people’s problems head-on with the goal to solve them one sale at a time
• To single-handedly help individual families impacted by intraracial violent crime financially and mentally.
• To identify as many variables as possible to the high black crime equation, find organizations that specifically aims to answer the problem and amplify their voice and presence by utilizing the BMDTGO platform
• To serve as an economic conduit for organizations that aim to solve the problem of the high black crime equation
• To incite black people to take responsibility to fix this complex, systemically designed issue that is plaguing our community and stop looking to the GOVT to fix it!
• To encourage the culture to be socially responsible

CHARITY COMPONENT:

We are a streetwear fashion brand that drives revenue to donate 25% of our sales to BMDTGO Cares fund to help those impacted by violent crime and to support organizations that provide resources serve as a benefactor, community amplifier, an accountability partner to the black community to raise awareness surrounding the problem and directly impact families and support organizations by donating a portion of BMDTGO advocacy merch to these causes and initiatives.