John Waters appeared Friday evening on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" and discussed the recent unrest in Baltimore related to Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old who died April 19 because of injuries sustained while in police custody. Here's what Waters said:
"I'm so naive on racism. I grew up with George Wallace, a dumb racist who was easy to make fun of ... Real racists today -- they don't say it out loud. They're the scariest ones.
"The night Baltimore was burning I was filming a cameo in the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie in Atlanta. So I may not be that qualified to talk about it.
"[But] I was arrested in Baltimore in my life. And I was in a paddy wagon -- they didn't break my back. At the same time, there's a cop bar that I hang out in and they're very nice to me. So it just depends.
"Here's how you solve it. Two ways you want to solve it, what I think, in Baltimore.
"One, like jury duty. Once a year every family has to move to the exact economic opposite neighborhood and live there.
"They have to get their hair done there. They have to send their kids to school there. They gotta go to the store there. And then you move back.
"The other one is: Don't make it a race thing; make it a class thing. There's just as many poor white people in Baltimore. Poor white people don't riot, rich white people do.
"Rich college kids...If there were any white rioters in Baltimore, they were upscale.
"Did Che Guevara take toilet paper? Really, I'm for that! Toilet paper is expensive. It's a fortune."