How Our Solidarity Destroyed A Brand Believed To Be Klan-Run
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Everybody was rocking Troop streetwear in the 1980s. Then a rumor about its racist roots spread like wildfire. Did the KKK run Troop? We didn’t wait to find out. #pushblack #blackhistory
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I sure wish so many of us would get together like this and stop supporting all the companies that follow us around the store telling us to hurry up and buy or yelling at us when placing orders with them. They all need to be shut down just like Troops was ASAP!
Facts
It’s so hard for us to get loans or whatever in our neighborhoods. They’ll give everyone else loans. Look at who runs the gas stations, motels, tire shops, beauty supply, nail shops and many more. I really wish we could put our money together. But we were bred not to trust each other. A lot of us are finally waking up
@@robertroberts5283 Facts
But Troop wasn’t Klan. All this was rumors. The funny thing is Shan was rocking Puma and that company was literally started by a Nazi in Germany. Same with Adidas, Hugo Boss, and a few other big name manufacturers still raking in cash today. Troop was started by an Asian and Jewish guy if I remember correctly.
Tommy Hilfiger is another one but they'll just find a reason to fact check or disprove it
So a rumor ruined a good brand nut now were so sold out we cant see straight
Yeah, it's interesting to see which brands fall to these kinds of rumors.
Too bad the power was used for a lie. We’ve all got to learn to fact check
It also appears to be the lesson hère for me
It wasn’t so easy to fact fact check like it is now
@@thecoach11 That’s fair. We can learn now, though.
@@thecoach11 the celebrities had the resources to do so, but decided to run their mouths first
That's a great way of looking at it.
Let's band together against drill music! Glorifying murder of black people must be discouraged. A lot of young people listen to that self-hating music.
I’ve been boycotting for 6 years.
Don’t program hiphop stations on ya car radio.
Block any media pages who promote black negativity or are not black but posting black things.
Do not add any drill artist on streaming apps.
Do no stream their music.
The key to the boycott is blocking the trash pages online & hurting the traffic which eventually costs them money
Thanks for sharing your thoughts - would be interesting to expand the conversation on what drill music means to the community at large.
This isn't solidarity, that would be coming together as a community and not spending the little money available on designer clothing.
1000 thumbs up from me
Definitely a great way of framing this! 🧡
But this is true for most name brands whether they say it or not, Tubi is owned by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! We appreciate your voice in the conversation! 🧡
Don’t know tubi, now that I know I won’t use it
Thanks for the information.
THAT PART!! Most brands are low key anti black they just won’t say it.
Im not a liberal nor am i democratic supporter, i can say this without conviction but Our Black communities do not need more people preaching and so called tea hinG Our history and still do not support only and solely Our Agendas, nough saiD.@@PushBlack
If this same energy was only used for gucci.
Would be interesting to see if the same energy was used for Gucci. 🤔
@@PushBlack tried and failed. Barely lasted a month after the blackface sweater was released. Its sad, indeed.
The crown and the colors are there. If it wasn't klan inspired, it was close enough for discomfort.
Definitely food for thought! 🧡
Back in the day I remember everyone saying this about British Knights🤷🏾♂️
*Edit to Add:* The level of solidarity that ended TROOP is long gone. More than likely due to COINTELPRO peddling this "who is us/we?" levels of individualist nonsense in our communities thats been dividing up for years.
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Who is us ads are NOT for the people
We are powerful people but need to use our superpowers on meaningful causes.
That's a great point and definitely a worthy discussion to have.
Use that unity to stop gun violence not fashion 🤦🏿♂️smdh
Definitely conversation worth having when it comes to where we should direct our focus as a community!
We have to figure out a way to keep our fathers in the home. Black men need to realize the importance of family. If we can't get that done, things will only get worse.
Same thing with tommy hilfiger then Fubu got invented then found out its not really black owned. The truth is in the details.
Definitely is! 🧡
The rumor about Tommy Hifliger is that Mr. Hilfiger said something like “If I knew minorities would be wearing my clothing, I would not have made it so nice.” Or something like that. That is definitely a rumor and not proven if he ever said that. But Hilfiger clothing is definitely not black owned and originally is like boating/yacht gear that everyone somehow started wearing in high schools lol
The rumor was probably spread by duh duhduhduh, competing clan run clothes companies or the prison system.
That would be interesting to see how that rumor came to life and who was behind it. 🤔
I remember that and I was salty because I finally got a troop jacket and it wasn’t hot no more 😢
Thanks for sharing your experience! That must have been so frustrating!
I remember having a pair of Troop sneakers when I was a child, and then all of sudden seeing on TV entertainers like LL Cool J., and other say they won't wear or buy the brand anymore. There was also a rumor about Snapple as well, but that brand survived. Our people denounced the Troop brand only to endorse two other brands that were made from what we were told were racist people. Adidas and Puma are brother companies and were both created by German Nazis brothers Adolph and Rudolph Dassler. So while this showed what our people could do when we unite, it also showed how shallow, emotional, dimwitted, and needy we were as a people, in conjunction with the fact that we also don't do our research before we act. We immediately latched on to another brand made from white men who were part of a Party that history says was racist and not good people, and that support has allowed those brands to flourish today. Many of our people STILL wear Adidas, even after all the foul stuff they did to Kanye West for telling his people that we are in fact the real Jews of the Bible. Most of us (not all) shrugged it off, and kept rocking Adidas like Anthony Edwards and James Harden. 🧐
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! Definitely interesting to think about. 🧡
Troops demise proves that ignorant people can spread incorrect nonsense fast
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
They do this to a lot of brands and it's never true
Definitely have seen some different brands in the comments that have deal with some kind of rumors.
I'm 51yrs of age......from Baltimore, MD. and it was said to stand ( true- ruler -of- oppressed- people ) back then.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! 🧡
I agree with everything that you are saying. As a matter of fact, Mr Fuller suggested that we should replace white supremacy with justice. I agree with that as well
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I believe poverty is rooted in property taxes amongst other things.
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I was there and around back in 87'-88'.I had a red pair of "Ice Lambs".And They were Fresh! As can be too! But when I heard that rumor! Right away I stopped wearing Them.And put Them up for retirement.😎👍🏾🌴
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing! 🧡
Balenciaga???🤔
That would be an interesting brand to look into!
rumours didn't kill Timberland
Maybe we have to start rumors for Nike... Etc.. etc...
Definitely didn't! They are still thriving.
What about Snapple! It was a rumor about that company being run by the 3K!
We can definitely look into that!
I heard that to.
Arizona and Mystic drinks had that rumor attached to them as well.
Well…who owned it then? Obviously the company was taken out intentionally by the rumor.
We can look into that!
Plot twist: TROOP was really black-owned and the rumor was created to destroy a black business and it worked.
Certainly interesting to see how these rumors evolve when it comes to certain brands!
I think they would have went out of style anyway. The rumor didn't help. British Knights were the sh*t too, but they also went out of style. Alot of brands from that era didn't last. Like Cross Colours or even the Umen brand from Oaktree.
Right? Sometimes it may have been interesting to let brands run their natural course.
let us not forget what tommy hilfiger said on national tv that he did not make his clothes for black people.
That was a moment we definitely don't need to forget!
Teddy and Harvey Held, and William Kim based in the Bronx.
Thanks for sharing!
We didn't play back then!!!
We sure didn't! 🧡
The company was owned by two jewish men & a Korean…. Their competition started the hoax… why does it seem like everyone sells our “culture” but us?
That's a great question and would be a worthy discussion to have.
Wow
Learn a little more every day watching this channel
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I remember rocking TROOP shoes back in 6th&7th grade I loved them shoes
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
"Everybody" didn't want to wear Troop. Just everybody who wanted to pay too much for ordinary clothes, due to a fad/peer pressure. I also refused to pay a ridiculous $78 for a pair of Air Jordans, while other sneakers were still priced in the $20-30 range. The Eighties is when I ditched Greed-ke, Greedbok, and Greedidas, in favor of reasonably priced, American made New Balance, then mainly worn by dorky white people.
Thank you for sharing your experience with this brand with us! 🧡
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Good video
Glad you enjoyed! 🧡 Thanks for watching!
Wow! That's an interesting way to look at that. Rather than that together y'all fell for disinformation and never checked your fact before destroying an innocent corporation. Maybe you could have balanced this story a little bit better.
"...y'all fell for disinformation and never checked your fact before destroying an innocent corporation."
Check how?
innocent company? it was still a white owned company exploiting black people !!
Yah, it was a weird way to spin the story. It’s actually embarrassing that this happened….😮
This happened in the 1980s before the internet Hip Hop was still young. Most people in the "culture" were either in their 20s or teenagers
Yup. I remember how Troop got shut down. Why would you care about their demise? Misinformation or not-the point is how the young Black people of the time shut them down. We did it to Hilfiger too. None of these corporations care for Black People and we should have shut them all of down: Nike, Timberland, Polo, Gucci…Hell there are too many to name. They extract trillions of dollars from our community, we put their brands on the map or made them bigger and we’ve got next to nothing in return except their products that have been depreciated into nothing.
F’em-if we made them big-we can ourselves bigger.
We almost got Tommy Hilfiger outta here on a similar rumor
Definitely - interesting to see how these rumors evolve.
How would we organize something like this again? What companies would we start with?
That's a great question!
Great Video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! 🧡
I had a pair black and white and they had LL COOL J on the side
That's cool! 🧡 Thanks for sharing your experience with the brand.
troop was always ugly to me...I've never wanted that brand
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!
Same, reminded me of British Knights or something
But people are still wearing Von Dutch.
That would be another brand to look into!
I thought it was BK British Knights that were the KKK run company. I think someone told me that they had some sort of KKK insignia on the inside of the soles. I had an old pair that I pulled apart and found nothing 😂😂 we need to fact check f’real.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us! Definitely frustrating I bet.
I just looked this up, if you do a Google image search of “British Knights Control shoe,” there are some pictures that show the bottom of the shoe. On some of these there is a cross inside a circle that kinda vaguely resembles the KKK cross. Not exactly, but I could see how a rumor might start off that. Also back in the 80s it was tougher to fact check without the internet
African's Best is owned by KKK as well. I was ashamed to kept using it my own Afro.
Very interesting - we will have to look into it!
I heard it stood for
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Very interesting...🤔
Never heard about that, not even back on day.
Guess you're not old enough
@@RBZ-1or maybe he/she just didn't hear about it?! Ever thought about that? 😏🤦🏾♂️
@@msolomon1781 nope..not old enough. 😤🤷🏾♂️
It's definitely an interesting boycott of a brand to learn about and how we as a community dealt with it.
Now it's time to go after SHONEY'S en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoney%27s
We'll look into that brand!