This is Quackpot. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer.

Protests rage coast to coast as Americans demand justice for George Floyd, Brianna Taylor,

and other black citizens who died at the hands of police.

Today on our podcast, two powerful interviews on the two American crises rocking the nation

and what lies beneath.

Merck, CEO Ken Frazier, on the Black Experience in 2020.

This African American man who could be me or any other African American man is being treated as less than human.

And the relationship between race and economic opportunity.

In good times when the community is quiet,

we can ignore it.

We can go about doing what we believe is in our economic self-interest.

But in the long run, what's in our economic self-interest, but in the long run what's in our enlightened

economic self-interest is that for all Americans to feel like they're

participants in our economy.

Wes Moore, author veteran activist and CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation speaks out on protests and violence in the push for social change.

There will never be peace nor calm nor tranquility without justice. I stand by the calls for peace. But where is our collective

pain supposed to go in the absence of justice?

It's Monday June 1st, 2020, Squack Pot begins right now. Small and large cities across the US witnessed the largest public demonstrations this weekend since the

1960s.

In light of these events, Squackbox today aimed to tackle the systemic issues beneath the unrest, racism,

income inequality, and a global pandemic that could make the economic divide even

deeper. We start the podcast today with an idea proposed by guest Robert Johnson, the founder of

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