Chris Pratt’s Shirt Associated With Gun Rights, Labeled Racist

By Tom Knighton

Actor Chris Pratt seems like one of the more genuine guys in Hollywood and probably someone that a lot of us would enjoy hanging out with. After all, he’s someone who has posted about his hunting exploits on social media, which probably doesn’t endear him to the Hollywood elite. Yet he still does it, probably because he just doesn’t care all that much. He’s one of the more bankable stars in the world right now thanks to the success of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

However, it seems a t-shirt he wore recently has stirred a small bit of controversy. At least, that’s what Yahoo! is claiming.

The Marvel star’s top shows the American flag with a coiled snake over the top and a message underneath which reads “Don’t Tread On Me.”

The writing and snake combo on its own is depicted on the Gadsden flag; a symbol created by Christopher Gadsden, a Charleston-born brigadier general in the Continental Army.

It came to prominence during the Revolutionary War of the US by colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain.

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— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) July 15, 2019

Although it is one of the symbols and flags used by …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms