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CaseyJones
08-04-2016, 02:51 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/wearing-dont-tread-on-me-insignia-could-be-punishable-racial-harassment/


Complainant stated that he found the cap to be racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, a “slave trader & owner of slaves.” Complainant also alleged that he complained about the cap to management; however, although management assured him C1 would be told not to wear the cap, C1 continued to come to work wearing the offensive cap.
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Complainant maintains that the Gadsden Flag is a “historical indicator of white resentment against blacks stemming largely from the Tea Party.” He notes that the Vice President of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters cited the Gadsden Flag as the equivalent of the Confederate Battle Flag when he successfully had it removed from a New Haven, Connecticut fire department flagpole.

puppetmaster
08-04-2016, 03:08 PM
Buy more.

bunklocoempire
08-04-2016, 03:20 PM
Slavery, I'm glad you brought that up... why do you favor me being a slave, or yourself for that matter?

What clothing do you want to make me wear, massa?

phill4paul
08-04-2016, 03:37 PM
Time to tear it down!!!! Down with Whitey!!!


Memorial for black Revolutionary War soldiers finds spot on Mall after 30 years

Maurice Barboza’s idea to build a memorial to black Revolutionary War soldiers on the Mall was sparked by the end of another struggle: the campaign by Barboza’s aunt to be the second black member of the Daughters of the American Revolution in modern times. She won.

That was 1984. Over the next 30 years, Barboza, inspired by his aunt’s tenacity, patiently shepherded the idea of a “black Patriots memorial” through the stages of historical research, development of a monument and then congressional legislation. The longtime Alexandria resident even sold his house to raise money and focus on the project.

And now, he may have won.

Last month, Congress unanimously authorized a site for the memorial: the northeast corner of 14th Street and Independence Avenue, a main gateway to the city, in what is currently a surface parking lot next to the Department of Agriculture. And on Sept. 26, President Obama signed the authorization into law. The National Liberty Memorial was formally approved for placement on the Mall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/memorial-for-black-revolutionary-war-soldiers-finds-spot-on-mall-after-30-years/2014/10/16/e69e338a-54a0-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html

Oh, wait.........

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/10/15/Local/Images/memorial2971413398651.jpg?uuid=QdlRDlSbEeS4bRhKwoE 4jQ

oyarde
08-04-2016, 06:08 PM
While I know Col Gadsden was from South Carolina , how is it known he was a slave owner ?

JK/SEA
08-04-2016, 06:12 PM
While I know Col Gadsden was from South Carolina , how is it known he was a slave owner ?


because he said so.

Suzanimal
08-09-2016, 11:13 AM
Don't Tread on This
By Jack Perry
August 6, 2016

Hey, did you know the federal government says that one of this nation’s own Revolutionary War flags is basically “hate speech”? That would be the Gadsden Flag, the familiar “Don’t Tread On Me” flag that is quite popular right now. See here.

Ok, as I have said here before, I don’t like to get into “diversity” issues. I find most of them can be traced back to “activists” that have nothing better to do than find “hate” in everything from TV commercials to breakfast foods. But, look, people need to grow up and get over it. What, the Gadsden Flag is “hate speech” because people you don’t agree with fly it? I think you’ll find a lot of people you also don’t agree with fly the current American flag, too. The Ku Klux Klan and various American neo-Nazi parties have all carried the good old Stars and Stripes. Therefore, does that make the Stars and Stripes “hate speech”, too?

My gosh, everyone these days needs to be “offended” over something, or find some reason to claim victimhood and seek that special status that affords them the right to weep openly on television talk shows. “People never accepted me because I’m a vegan! Someone actually unloaded a family-pack of pork chops from a grocery cart right in front of me! I was so traumatized, I needed to seek professional counseling! I think we need a law that either bans meat altogether or makes it all packed in black plastic bags so it can’t offend anyone!” Hey, I don’t make this crap up, folks. This is where we’re at now. Everyone wants to be a victim and have a cause to trumpet with bumper stickers and t-shirts. And their own “activists”.

Look here, if you don’t like the Gadsden Flag, I think you shouldn’t buy one. I think you have the right not to affix one to your motor vehicle. You can even make your own bumper sticker that says, “I Think The Gadsden Flag Is Not Very Eco-Friendly” or some other such claptrap. But there is a message the flag continues to state: “Don’t Tread On Me”. Meaning, hey man, you don’t get to trample on everyone else’s free speech rights just because you’re “offended” or you don’t like it. The First Amendment was actually not written to protect porn, vulgar song lyrics, or violence on television. It was written to protect political speech and religious freedom first of all. And the Gadsden Flag is political speech. Duh, it’s a flag. So, get over it and stop whining.

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I don’t know where this comes from, this need to be victims or needing more human rights than other human beings. You should see what the public schools go through with this type of thing. If you knew how much tax money is wasted on this McBending Over McBackwardscottage industry of parental whiners with a Munchausen-By-Proxy shtick using their kids, you’d hit the roof. I suppose they’ll need to spend a few million dollars redacting the history textbooks to remove images of the Gadsden Flag so kids (or, more likely, their parents) won’t be offended. You know who used to do that? Stalin. Every time someone fell out of favor with him, the Soviets were ordered to go through all history books and cut out the photos of that guy. They probably issued a pair of scissors with each new textbook. And this is where we are at now, except we’ve got a more eco-conscious Stalin called political correctness.

Again, I actually don’t like talking about this. But this needs to be said. And not said in a way to make sure someone’s feelings aren’t hurt. Listen up. We live in a world where, right now, people are being murdered en masse because they belong to the “wrong” sect of Islam. Is that you over here? No? Then shut up. People are dying very real deaths because of their faith and you want to act like some yellow piece of cloth with a snake on it somehow injures you? Grow up and stop wearing training pants, crybabies. I know this will generate a firestorm of whining and outrage, but I have now heard enough of people so offended they need the government to enforce it.

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/jack-perry/dont-tread/

adissa
08-09-2016, 11:28 AM
Hold on, America. Trump's coming.

ChristianAnarchist
08-09-2016, 11:54 AM
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/jack-perry/dont-tread/

Damn...
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Suzanimal again.

Occam's Banana
08-09-2016, 12:38 PM
http://i.imgur.com/IvOYgcE.png

Spikender
08-09-2016, 12:50 PM
Can't give rep to Occam, dammit.

I came in here to post the same LewRockwell article that Suz did but I'm beaten to it as usual. Either way, just more societal adjustment thanks to the cultural Marxist youth in this country brainwashed by their diversity studies professors. Any flags associated with the evil whites or patriarchy must be dismantled replaced by a stark white flag of surrender.