*(Via GMA/Yahoo News) – The Beaumont Bulls, a youth football team in Beaumont, Texas, whose members are receiving death threats after following the lead of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protesting the national anthem over America’s treatment of “blacks and people of color,” as Kaepernick explained to NFL Media, will continue their demonstration, according to the team’s coach and the mother of one of the players.
April Parkerson, the mother of 11-year-old running back Jaelun Parkerson, confirmed to ABC News that players on the team have received threatening messages. She said the team’s protest of the national anthem “will continue.”
Rah Rah Barber, the team’s coach, concurred with Parkerson, saying he never imagined the response to the team’s actions would “get to this point.” He said the threats have showed “how far behind we are as a society.”
The attention surrounding the team’s protest started last Saturday, when Barber, along with his coaching staff and team, kneeled and placed their hands on each other’s shoulders in silence before the playing of the national anthem.
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