Don't Tread on Me' The Gadsden flag is yellow with a rattlesnake pictured with the words "Don't Tread on Me." It was created ...

“Repeatedly.” But: 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.

Also known as the Gadsden flag, it was named after Colonel Christopher Gadsden, who used it as his own personal motto for the Marines in the Revolutionary War. The inspiration for the symbolic ...