A Brief History of the Gadsen Flag
For those of you interested in facts, here is the history of the Gadsden Flag (per Encyclopedia Brittanica). Its association with racism is because of a judgment by a random bureaucrat commenting on a postal worker’s EEOC complaint about a co-worker wearing a hat he was displeased by: The Gadsden flag, also called Hopkins flag or Don’t Tread on Me flag, historical flag used by Commodore Esek Hopkins, the United States’ first naval commander in chief, as his personal ensign during the American Revolution (1775–83). The flag features a coiled rattlesnake above the words “Don’t Tread on Me” on a yellow background." The flag was one of several contemporary flags that included an image of a rattlesnake, which had become a popular symbol of unity among the American colonies. The rattlesnake symbol originated in the 1754 political cartoon “Join, or Die” published in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette. The cartoon, which depicted the colonies divided as segments of a cut...