Governor Jared Polis (D-CO) said Wednesday on “CNN Primetime” that school children should be able to display a “Gadsden flag” or a “Pride flag” because “that’s what it’s all about, to be an American.”
Democrats and Republicans have come out in defense of a 12-year-old boy in Colorado who got booted from class for a Gadsden flag.
He furtively lowered the fort’s flag, which proclaimed “Don’t Tread on Me,” and passed the colors to another soldier rather than hand them over to the enemy.
The Celtics deleted a tweet Tuesday with point guard Kemba Walker wearing a yellow jacket with the “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag on it.
Yahoo News stealth-edited its piece on A-list actor Chris Pratt, with its original headline suggesting that he was wearing a “white supremacist” T-shirt – an image resembling the Gadsden Flag. Yahoo later took out the phrase “white supremacist” after it was revealed that the report was based on nothing more than a handful of rants from unverified Twitter accounts.
Yahoo News cobbled together a handful of social media users who attacked actor Chris Pratt this week, accusing him of wearing a “white supremacist” dogwhistle after Vulture staff writer Hunter Harris tweeted a photo of the patriotic A-lister wearing an American flag T-shirt with “Don’t Tread On Me” and the Gadsden flag coiled rattlesnake superimposed on it.
The Supreme Court added three political-speech cases on Monday to its oral argument docket this year, granting review in one involving pro-life pregnancy centers, another where a man was arrested while criticizing his local government for corruption at a public meeting, and a third where state law prohibited a man from wearing the Gadsden flag or a voter-ID button when he went to his polling place to vote.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is weighing whether it is “racist” to wear the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag logo in the workplace.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Office demanded June 3 the Postal Service investigate the claim by an employee that a co-worker’s hat with the Gadsden Flag — picturing a rattlesnake with the words: “Don’t Tread On Me” — was an actionable form of racial harassment in an order that has not yet been posted publicly.
The saga of Fort Washington is one of tragedy, courage, and triumph – a tiny victory recorded in personal accounts of several intrepid Americans who possessed a profound devotion to a newly formed country and one of its flags.
Last year, Breitbart News reported that preview footage of EA’s then-unreleased first-person shooter Battlefield Hardline contained content that conflated the Tea Party movement with a group of racist survivalist enemies.
