My question to you is, when we were out here protesting all last week for six days straight peacefully, there were no news cameras, there were no helicopters, there was no riot gear, and nobody heard us.... I mean, enough is enough. We've had too many lives lost at the hands of police officers. Enough is enough.

Enough is enough is right.

And if white people like Thomas Roberts stepped outside their narrow little world of privilege once in a while and actually learned about what it's like to be black in Baltimore, they'd agree.

Don't believe me? Just check out these statistics that Bill Quigley has put together over at Alternet.

One hundred and forty-eight thousand people, about 24 percent of Baltimore's total population, live in poverty.

The unemployment rate in the black community is double the unemployment rate in the white community. People who live in Baltimore's wealthiest neighborhoods live 20 years longer than people who live in Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods.

White babies born in Baltimore live, on average, 6 years longer than black babies, and black babies are 9 - I repeat, 9 - times more likely to die before their first birthday than white babies. Black Baltimore residents, meanwhile, are 8 times more likely to die from HIV/AIDS and 2 times more likely to die from diabetes.

And as if all that wasn't bad enough, black Baltimore residents are 560 percent more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white Baltimore residents, despite smoking marijuana at about the same rate. In fact - and this is really amazing - 92 percent of all marijuana-related arrests in Baltimore were of African-Americans, which gives Charm City the dubious honor of having the highest marijuana arrest racial disparity in America.

This was the kindling; Freddie Gray's death was just the spark.

That raises the question - would a white guy like, say, George Washington have put up with a situation like this? No, he wouldn't have.