Former MLB superstar and current Marlins hitting coach Barry Bonds used social media on Tuesday to condemn racist behavior involving several of his daughter's white classmates. In a video Bonds shared on Twitter, white students who reportedly attend Brentwood School in Los Angeles—the same school Bonds' teenage daughter Aisha attends—are shown using the n-word while rapping along to A$AP Ferg's song "Dump Dump."
The video Bonds shared was originally posted to YouTube on Sunday by a group called Brentwood Students Against Racism and includes stats about the school. According to the group's video, there are only three black 10th grade students out of a class of 120 at Brentwood, which the video claims is a 50 percent drop from the 2014-15 school year.
Brentwood School is a private, non-religious K through 12 school in Los Angeles, and its website claims that 26 percent of students in grades K through 6 and 34 percent of students in grades 7 through 12 are of color. The school has a diversity mission statement which reads:
In the YouTube video's description, Brentwood Students Against Racism wrote, "The administration has refused to take action about Brentwood students using the n-word," and posted a link to a change.org petition they've started to try and compel the school's administration to act on the incident. Here is a portion of the petition:
The petition was later updated to say that the school has promised to take action. Bonds' ex-wife Elizabeth Bonds signed the petition and left this comment on it:
In a statement sent to Complex, Brentwood Students Against Racism addressed the situation and said it hopes the controversy surrounding the video will help "promote change":
The group also noted that the aforementioned statistic included in the video is incorrect. According to the group, there are actually four black students in Brentwood's 10th grade class, which represents a 33 percent drop from the previous school year.
On Wednesday afternoon, Brentwood School released a statement about how they plan to handle the video moving forward:
Brentwood School did not immediately reply to Complex's request for comment.
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