Little league football team getting death threats for anthem protest

https://gma.yahoo.com/texas-youth-f...m-despite-024900841--abc-news-topstories.html


Youth football team receiving death threats for protesting. Excerpt from article....



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.

Parkerson described this summer as a "turning point" in her son's awareness of race and politics and said he first wanted to take action after videos of the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were posted online.

 

When in doubt, send death threats.

 

At a youth football team at that

 

Conform or Die, nice sentiment that some people have in the Land of the Free, huh?

Its funny though a bunch of ranchers take over a government property are armed to the teeth and threaten law enforcement, spit in the face of the laws of the land because they could not use land for free and politicians, tv personalities, and others bend over backwards to show support they are called Patriots. Silently take a knee not threaten anyone not break any laws, and generally just want to improve things and you are called a whiny, thug, who only wants a hand out and who should be kicked out of the country.

 

Exactly

Where's paniro

 

By sending death threats, they actually reinforce the reasons why so many people are choosing to kneel or stay seated during the national anthem.

 

Exactly

But people like paniro don't get it

 

Damn sure Don't agree with death threats and I don't agree with them kneeling. What's funny is so called conservatives are usually the first to talk about getting their rights trampled on. They will then turn right around and trample on a opinion they don't agree with.


You become what you hate.

 

You are so fucking in love with me it's sick. You constantly go thread to thread wondering what I'm going to say. Am I that fucking important to you?

You will lash out to this and respond and I won't. Which will eat you the fuck up.

 

Aww please you will be the first one talking about how foul blacks act. Hell I put up a thread about a wm eating the face off the victims and he still lived despite fighting the cops while on drugs and you had not one thing to say. As soon as bliss put up a different story, you was all in ace first

 

Now people are choosing the flag over children's lives. This country is about to end itself.

 

This country is ripe for a next generation demagogue.

I thought there was no way in hell after the Dubya debacle for Trump to get elected.

Now I'm not so sure.
This country has always elected the POTUS they deserved, not necessarily the Commander in Chief they needed.

Maybe we need to lift up the rock of the American myth and see just how ugly things are underneath to begin to get things headed in the right direction.

I just hope we can survive a President Trump if that's how things play out.

THe man is a master con man and has literally ripped off everyone he's ever dealt with in business.

I hope his die hard supporters don't lose their shit once they realize most of his declarations and promises were just so much bullshit he spouted to get himself elected.

The man by his very nature is not a 'public servant'.:smt109