University of California Los Angeles’ Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) president Danny Siegel caught considerable heat from the student body when students discovered an old photograph of him throwing up the Bloods gang symbol. The Bloods, one of the two most infamous predominantly black gangs founded in Los Angeles, are known for their rivalry with the Crips and for creating considerable havoc through drug trafficking, gun crime, and various other societal ills in our nation beginning in the 1970’s. Once students caught wind of Siegel’s photograph and students accused him of being insensitive to those who suffered from gang violence, Siegel issued an apology on Facebook, which included the following words:
This is a result of my white privilege and lack of perspective, something that so many victims of gang violence don’t have the luxury of, in fact this behavior can put their lives at risk. … I should have known better and take full responsibility for my insensitivity.
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