Watch a Baltimore city councilman try to explain the roots of black anger to Fox News

With Baltimore engulfed in violence and looting last night, a Baltimore city councilman, Nick Mosby, tried to explain the roots of the rioters' anger to a Fox News interviewer, explaining that people were showing "decades-old anger and frustration for a system that's failed them."

"This is bigger than Freddie Gray," he said of the man whose death in police custody sparked the riots. "This is about the socioeconomics of poor urban America." He added, "When folks are undereducated, unfortunately they don't have the same intellectual voice to express it the way other people do."

The interviewer, Leland Vittert, then asked, "We just watched this liquor store being looted... Is that right?" To which Mosby responded, "Is that right? No. I think you've missed everything I've tried to articulate."

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Watch some of the exchange below, and watch a full exchange here, in which Mosby signs off by saying Vittert's continued concern with the liquor store was "not productive." —Ryu Spaeth

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