WATCH: Finance Expert Ryan Mack Sounds Off on Occupy Wall Street

As the #OccupyWallStreet protests in New York continue to make headlines and spread to other financial centers around the country, we asked Ryan Mack, CNN contributor, financial expert and author of Living in the Village

, to give us his thoughts on the movement.

After speaking to a room full of entrepreneurs at the ME University

event in Atlanta this weekend, Mack tells us why Americans, especially Black Americans, need to do more than demonstrate.

See the video below…

Videographer: Melissa Johnson