At UCLA, the furor started with a photo of the undergraduate student body president, making a hand sign associated with the Bloods.
Danny Siegel is white. He was wearing a suit and tie.
Many African American students were angered by what they saw as a man of white privilege mocking their community and clueless about the poverty and despair that drive some in it into gangs.
There were those, of course, who said to chill out, the photo was a joke…
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.