Two weeks after the callous murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, the United States is beset by a level of nationwide unrest and protests the likes of which hasn't been seen in decades.

Will this be a moment of reflection in which our society and institutions are finally reformed to purge the deeply embedded structures of racial inequality? Or will different segments of the country continue living in separate realities, unable to acknowledge the existence of the problem?

Robert Amsterdam is joined by Prof. Robert Patterson, PhD, the inaugural chair of Georgetown University's Department of African American Studies and the author of "Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality."