a domino effect of general motors of the toyota with the previous is succeeding for being a eco baron are you optimistic businesses that can set off a race to the top of the businesses imitating each other or will there be certain niche players in the game seeking greenburg taha impleader will remain? >> guest: well, i don't think the hummer is doing so well these days but metaphorically, one of the things people need to understand it isn't a zero sum game. it's not here's the cost of doing something about climate change or we can just not do anything because both the cost and a substantial one. monitoring anything is when to have a cost in terms of our prosperity and in fairly short order because we are going to begin to experience and our children's lifetime certainly

was some substantial effects. there's already a cost to the way we live and we don't even calculate into these comparisons. look at the health cost of our mode of transportation. we know people who live near have tighter instances of cancer and lung disease and that our cities, our children are experiencing more respiratory problems, morels my and so forth. all of that can be linked to our air pollution emissions from vehicles and factories and so forth. now here's the question for you. is that cost being borne by the people building these vehicles were selling that fuel. no, we are subsidizing the cost as a people for the insurance rates throughout the actual suffering through our government taxes subsidizing the cost. so, you know, we can say we have cheap gasoline, cheaper than

anybody else in the western world perhaps. but it's not cheap. it's just we are paying a different line item. so if we look at the true cost of not taking action we would see its enormous. >> host: i agree. my final question when you present the book and mature readers have any of your readers reactions to the book's price you? >> guest: i would say more gratified and maybe it is because people who are attracted to an event where i am speaking about something called the "eco barons" are already cream minded in a way but i am hearing is horror at the idea that in this day and age we would be planning and cities and important wilderness area and what can we do to try to influence policy makers not to go forward as described. a lot of enthusiasm about he calls such as those andy frank

designs that would be cleaner and greener and even then this idea of protecting endangered species which has been controversy over the years has been increased because people don't want puller arrears to be extinct and wales to be extinct or important landscapes to vanish. there was an attempt to paint the people who want to enforce the endangered species act as our walz because they are trying to impede development or stop logging of public forests and that somehow makes them an outlaw threatening the established order but in fact they are just advocating obey infil wall we have and follow the the endangered species if we would allow what we have on the books we would be in a better place environmentally now. the problem is we've been breaking the law so many years and that message has resonated that we have some tools now if

only we would put them to work would help heal the landscapes and the planet. >> host: edward, thank you very much. >> guest: my pleasure. former church leader, reporter and nevada state assembly me member pat hickey talks about his memoir, "tahoe boy." nv posted program. it is a half hour. >> thank you for coming. my name is pat hickey. im the reason you are here. and i and here to share my book to shamelessly self promotion tonight, read some things, take your questions and answers and talking a little bit about this here "tahoe boy." let me begin in the beginning and read you just the first paragraph. and maybe that's enough. it is kind of all contained here

supposedly. finding happiness is hard to do. even growing up in a picture-perfect paradise like lake tahoe it wasn't easy. friends of mine got lost looking for it in america's year round playground. many went elsewhere sojourning for their peace. i did, too before i came back to find mine back home. maybe that's all that needs to be read but i will find some other things. writing the book about tahoe, tahoe is a metaphor if you will like kansas in a way was the door the of the wizard of oz that there was no place for her flight home and for anyone fortunate enough like i was to grow up in lake tahoe the place mark twain of course called the fairest place to paraphrase on god's green earth, very, very

fortunate to have grown up here more than a place for me was a metaphor for the happiness i saw it in my life like each and every one of us here. molto ho -- tahoe, i have here 96 year old father. let me read about the family that were early pioneers in the tahoe area. if i can find it here momentarily. well, i had these marked so this was supposed to work. we will come back to it. okay, let's forget that for a moment. one of the reasons why i wrote this book about my life was nearing 60i happened to be married to an asian wife you

will learn about briefly who i'm the recipient of and i arranged marriage with her so that's something different. but in asian culture thinking the year 60 represents the completion of a cycle in the beginning of the next phase of your life. i am meeting that. for me it was special to write about what happened in my life until that point of reaching 60 and things it meant to me. i guess one of the things that happened growing up at the lake i had an experience on a good friday and st. teresa s. perish we are i was a member as a catholic young person and i had an experience on the good friday being an altar boy of walking around the stages or the path and i really wondered why jesus had to die or i guess at that time the 60's song came up where

he said why do the good of ye beyond. abraham, martin, and john and leader bobby kennedy was added. i wondered at the time may be jesus should have been added as well. but let me into other thoughts and i sat there in my church as a 16-year-old and i wondered what would happen when i died. who would come to remember me and more than that i thought was what i say to those or had i said the things to those i loved and cared for in my life and i concluded i never had so i guess one way of writing the book the "tahoe boy" was an opportunity to say thanks for all those people that cared for me that meant something in my life and writing a book like this gave me an opportunity to do just that. let me again and read just a little bit about the family, the

hickey's that came to the valley in the 1800's. from all accounts, grandpa was not foolish enough to remain a dirt-poor irish farmer. neither was he wise enough to become a land rich american rancher instead he harvested ice out of brother-in-law wallace frozen pond. you seen it on television, the pond, it's the one which and charles barkley slices his shots every summer into the tahoe celebrity golf classic. the water hazard holds the distinction of being the only place i know of that both sir charles and my grandfather and cursed at incessantly. another tale of the family's land has mark twain parts of roughing it over its what or friday station as it was known. it served as a pony express for thompson and his beleaguered

mail carriers as well as a place for grandpa pat to get a back door pleat of irish stew from sister maggie. one more word to my grandfather. i said no one can say for sure gene o'neill new my grandfather as the model for his 1939 hickey of the iceman cometh but he did resemble the central character in two important ways pact loved to talk and he loved to drink not necessarily in that order. so my irish relatives are certainly giggling and are designating with that one. later in life i went away to berkeley in the sixties which was a wild place to send a guy like me in the middle of the 60's. write a little bit boarding school. in 64i went away to st. mary's college in berkeley. and there were of parents sent their firstborn mails to save them from the storage of public education. it was too early to know said

sacrilegious singers like madonna worth, school and not the panacea the presumed. the school wasn't boies all the time which meant there was constant thought about imaginary girls. other things happened in the boarding school that makes you long for a lot of things you don't have, having a car with female contact of any kind. once a year the proper young ladies of nearby st. joseph's school would grace st. mary's with their perfume presence. we would act as if it was a big deal but secretly each freshman border was after shaving his brains out in nervous anticipation of a would be dancing encounter with someone other than their 24/7 male companion. so that's boarding school and that led to other things. we came back or i came back with all the kids from tahoe. brandon riley remembers the boys were always get in fights at the american legion hall with the

valley boys like borden and associated press bureau chief who came up probably tinkled with a few of the guys back in today so when we were invited to come back i came to tahoe and some of our extracurricular activities. spurring baseball was more like a combination of ice hockey and mud wrestling than the national pastime. for early season practices the team would head to the desert east of carson city. the arrival date in the dust devils what went there to buy your diamond for weekend play. one day the guy is brought there 22 rifles for the right and after the day's scrimmage we piled into the back of georgia's pick up ostensibly to go jack rabbit hunting but no one before or after the great daniel boone ever managed to shoot a jack rabbit with anything other than a shotgun.

so you shouldn't be surprised anyone in the safari didn't produce the intended results. unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you view such matters there were other nearby ad ventures in the desert waiting to be false. one of the outfielders suggested a truth or dare session at the moonlight ranch. for those, i will skip nv's profligate industry. most of you already know about nv's second most famous vice but avoiding eye contact and making poor attempt at man humor most of the team watched as a few puffed up young stallions turn over their dollars to the mat on inside the trailer of inequity. ames had been forgotten to protect the innocents that was lost. for the question and answer session let me repeat that. names have been forgotten to protect the innocents that was lost. one boy negative bravado confessed he kept his socks on during the mostly sort of

affair. a metaphor for peery beano breached his white sox were a remnant of the decency but even a $10 late couldn't remove. [laughter] all right, enough of that. i guess this is a tell-all book. maybe i should tell running for office and i've got everything out there i am going to run for reelection again. the problem is as a republican i would have to have an affair to run these days and i love my wife too deeply. [laughter] i don't know what's happening to the republicans. it must be something in the water. i did run for office in the state of nevada. it was one of this citizen legislators that served one term and was gone. i guess that is the way many thought. it's a good time like a bill rational state but i was a flash in the pan. one of the reasons why i quit and i will bounce around here, you will have to read and by the book to get it in chronological order was i came to the

conclusion while all were for children or teenagers that someone could probably fill my seat in the assembly but not my shoes as a father so i turn my back on the assembly after good experiences some of you first reading once but had the honor of doing it any way here in nevada. for those who are not in the battle we all admire mark twain the best thing he ever said about the nevada legislature is it meets every two years for 60 days. combatants he said back then would be better served if in fact they met every 60 years for two days. that was true 130 years ago and some would argue it might still be true today. i did get into the media as you can tell i have a good face for the radio. so when i came back rush limbaugh who i knew since he was a big fish in a small-market in san francisco and i talk about

him going to reverend moon's conference when he was broken and he paid his way to washington for the first time i got to report on nevada and some of its characters. one day i had the privilege of reporting on this 11 such story was the day of may 14, 1992 when i reported on the fact god almighty filed for office in the silver state. the radio report went something like this many americans are happy h. ross perot is stepping down off the corporate a letter to run for president but one individual from reno is about to talk him and if he is who he says he is, u.s. senator harry reid may be about to meet his maker. that's right almighty filed to run for the senate seat. in case you're wondering he's a democrat. 56-year-old alito alladi allowed by nevada state law to file in the name he was commonly used by

and he had a faithful disciple who claimed people always did call him god almighty or at least he acted that way. i editorialized a little bit on the peace and i said no one has to wonder or one does have to wonder what god almighty will think if a vote for none of the above which is another option in nevada but on the second fought why would god almighty want to join the u.s. senator with 99 others who already think they are him. [laughter] from the carson city news bureau. by the way in spite of my higher connections i never could get an interview with god almighty. the last thing i will tell you before the question and answer was my marriage. i did have a unique background and my married life and a very happy one is. we would all like to think that we found a match made in heaven. mine was a little more liberal than that because i believe in a certain person the reverend moon who we thought was arranging our

marriage and have been and i was one of those participants in that small affair many of you watched on television in 2000 simply dressed couples at madison square garden. i was among those. but let me read the last account from the book about how i met my beloved wife. i met her for the first time on top of a garbage heap in the subbasement of the boston chariton. it was thanksgiving holiday weekend of 1978 reverend moon was hosting an international conference at the hotel, the picture match and we were matched by the victors. she had a lot of faith, didn't she? had been completed the 20 or so men who'd been engaged to corrine and women have only one thing on our mind, seeing a picture of our moon honey. the colonel reverend translator chief assistant had brought a manila envelopes from correa

with photographs and letters from in-between his duties the guys were trying to ambush as they could see a picture of the woman to be very turtle meat. i waited for just the right moment the evening of the vip tent before making my move while after midnight the translator came back to his room and i created to the concrete him anxiously went into his room and he said all of the manila envelopes and pictures are there. there was a bunch of guys named sycophant pronounced corrine and women but no pat hickey prize winner for me and he said i don't know where it is i'm sure i brought it from overseas. he had no idea where it was but i did. but if it had fallen off the dresser and a careless made made the mistake of calling it a way? having experience with hotels from my days at snowbird as a ski bum in garbage collection from a 96-year-old dad's first business at lake tahoe

unfortunately dad didn't keep the garbage business or i would be rich enough not to peddle the book these days. [laughter] any way i knew the facility probably had garbage chutes where a maintenance supervisor stumped the discord waste. i went down to the front desk and explained my situation to the manager who was already befuddled from all of the conference organizers requests to smuggle into reverend moon suite. he summoned a security guard and they took me to the basement and i began my midnight pilgrimage through the chariton garbage in search of true love. how about that? they could make a reality show on this one. after rummaging two hours to respond to the corner of an envelope the retreating from a bag to be properly pure at the moment of the introduction i opened the bag and found a manila folder with my name on it, caribbean style, pat hickey with garbage stands at 2:58 on

the morning of november 5th 1978i saw her for the first time. i don't know what time it was in cory gup i swear she was there with me in spirit but primarily how we would conduct our courtship the next four years of our engagement. years later we were together in chicago with reverend moon and he visited the city and he kicked me for being too close with my new spouse. it was a problem for the movement in the ladies in america and the american movement where they had kept its young and parents zealous in part by keeping them taste. abstinence i can assure you does make the heart and other body parts fonder. anyway i said to reverend moon since he arranged the marriage in the first place told him he had no one to blame but himself that i was too close to her. he laughed and ivies kicked judgment for the meantime. okay, enough reading. thank you. [applause]

stories at dnr about like tahoe, coming home, finding the peace and happiness we seek and living on both sides the secular and sacred calling so to speak, politics and religion. i'm grateful i was part of an old religion the catholic tradition part of a new religion unification. i'm grateful to both it's been a great experience for me and my family and my children who grew up in a unification family and went to catholic schools. the reverend told me don't start church here there's already too many. i was surprised. we said all of our kids to catholic schools like i'd gone to and we had a mix and match shake & bake and everything else but at this point i would like to just think you and open up for dialogue. i've got a couple of members from the press who can watch me squirm a little bit on this tool

but any way crews got a question about the book or about me or whatever? yes? >> [inaudible] >> thank you for asking. i kind of expected that question. the funny answer with every joke there is truth was to explain to my kids why they had such a crazy old man. more than that though, i wanted to bring a certain clarity and conclusion to the first part of my life. for me, writing always allowed me to see things in my life and see myself in ways that maybe i didn't observe or get a perspective not right in. i always loved to write a growing up and we all have a book that says they say that many people don't get around to doing one. i had the time, had a cabin and a supportive wife and was able to do it and the employees to say my kids have enjoyed it and in spite of the shocking things

that suspect and confirmed about me in reading the book and in that sense that was very fulfilling. i'm glad to share my experiences for a people who grew up in the 60's and read the book so far it brought up memories for them and i guess i feel somewhat successful while reading it as people told me they found their own memories as well. thank you. >> [inaudible] how long did it take to write the book? >> guest >> it took me about three years, had a laptop, went fishing and we have a little cabin in the county that got me away from things. the hardest part of writing the book is of course free reading it and read writing before it gets to your editors. so i took about three years of time it's difficult not so much writers block but one thing if

you write about yourself along the way for sure you get pretty sick of yourself and i experienced that why am i writing about myself, who wants to know? i'm a first-time author writing about you'd be interested in a memoir i am also sure you are about pat hickey's but fulfilling to do it and that is how long it took me. >> what time of the day was your best time to sit and write? >> the best time of the day i would save eight at night when the as the 58-year-old i don't sleep so well as i used to and would get up and get some clarity and quiet and one of the things i did the first three months is right down memories and no chronological order and kind of this added from time to

time when all was said and done so we all have selective memory some would argue i would include everything i probably chose the old simon garfunkel song here is what a man wants to hear and disregard the rest. i'm sure i disregarded the things that didn't put me in such a flattering light but i put plenty in there to embarrass myself but my time was a good time but you have to read and read right in order for it to be acceptable. >> [inaudible] >> if i ever get around to it will be about someone else. i'd like to write a biography of some interesting persons. of course there are many out there. yes to the student out there. >> did you keep a journal throughout most of your life to do have one? >> guest: rye terse are famous for doing that and people who

aspire to be writers are told to keep a journal. i really didn't so i guess i kept one upstairs it was more mental, it was memories. i really didn't keep a journal. one should if they're serious about writing. >> [inaudible] >> kahn which means the seol girl walk from korea that will be up to her to do. yeah. yes? >> did this complete a mission you had in life or do you feel like this is the beginning of a new stage in your life of

writing and you have other stories and books in sight you that are not you're own personal memoirs but that's kind of a lot. >> this wasn't so much a mission, but somehow i was compelled want to get it out of me and right. i would like to write again. i did enjoy yet and i do and i guess i would find out if i had enough skills for others to ensure we enough to want me to find another publisher to write something else i really don't have something in mind right now but i'd rather write about someone else for sure this next time no sequel, no "tahoe boy" ii end of the geezer. [laughter] i don't know what will be. >> when are you going to make a movie? >> the movie, yes. if they ever want to make a beautiful movie with soul tahoen

the background, how nice it would be -- that is dreaming at best. people will talk to you with those thoughts. i must say a book i have read and some of you may have read and was a movie produced by sean penn what is it out in the country? what was that? into the wild and we visited alaska and visited the bus where he died if you saw the movie or read the book. it wasn't really his story, it was a bunch of stories of young people like him. made by sean penn, kind of sad though. i think their stories with better in the news. i'm not sure mine is it but i don't think all movies have to end with someone finally finding enlightenment but being so far out of touch with society he died on the boss before he could get back to truly enjoy his

life. sure i would be happy if someone wants to make a screenplay or something but i am certainly not counting on it. .. >> coming back, and finding

love of family, one of the chapters since the book after having been so religious i said become a father and finding god and to meet domino traditional one orthodox a new religion can compare with the experience of apparent thank this something like the hour father that jesus prayed about if the parent can issue the years' experience to share that in common with the divine as much as any other earthly experience. my greatest spread was to come home with family, children, have the opportunity to live from them to be a bigger and better person because of what they taught me to try to learn how

to love and to have a wife who has completed me and complemented my life. those are things and those are unchanging for those of us in the '60s we rebelled against many of the values of our parents but i am so grateful to come back and found the things that they severs so most important community, love, and children and in the nature to return to the sounds and places to fly fish and build tepees with old friends like bill blair writes about in the last chapter of the book just to reconnect. >> when you left this worrisome cousin of yours i

always ask where you were and what was going on and nobody really knew. i was concerned. i had dreams and thoughts of getting closer in that period of time. and then with the marriage and all and then if a kid way to come into the carson valley i had a real estate office there and they would be selling flowers or books or paintings or what ever that came in and i would say did you happen to meet or be somewhere in the states where you would run into pat hickey sell him i

love him and i would love to see him some of them that would smile and others looked what are you talking about? that some of them had a connection it but we're happy that you are here just a bit of the irish sentiment. >> thank you for the sentiments and welcoming back of the prodigal son like a father and the brother but also the cousin. there is a line i say on my way to have been i put my parents and family through how. there is a lot of truth to that but home town was always something i wanted to return to. i took the reverend literally because he started talking about home town and i did it.

in iso grateful to return to connect with family and there were many that i lost touch with or i have regained touch and i hope this book helps me to do that and i think it will. >> i have really enjoyed one line that i want you to comment reading about you and the six states -- sixties and all the things that you did but my two sons never ask me any questions. [laughter] >> that is one of the ironies of life. i had so many questions i thought i had all the answers

and then the ironic thing is i had two sons and never asked any of those questions that i was ready to tell them. that is the irony of life. writes? right? >> i should say i have a lot more questions than i do have answers these days and that is probably healthier. think we probably need to retire to the book signing. because our friends as c-span have so much time for this. maybe one more question if somebody really has to get one and and then we will go over doing some books signing. if there is one. if not? bank you very much. i want to invite my wife to come up. she has been written about [applause] she has a great kodak face. this is the mother of our four beautiful children and my wife.

thank you. and my a 96 year-old father george is here and you'll get a kick out of them if you think i am a wild child i am a chip off of the old block. thank you very much i will sign your book and i do appreciate it. thank you for coming. so. and here's just a little bit of the book festival as you can see here right there on the campus. well, our next call-in guest is going to be larry willmore. he's the senior black correspondent on the daily show. and we wanted to show you a little clip from the daily show and we'll be back to take your calls. >> how much of a game changer

is barack obama? we have larry wilmore of black correspondent. >> thank you [applause] unbelievable obama has not only popular here at home but around the world and it is not his rhetoric or his smile it is something a little more basic. >> in that regard my younger son is eight and he now says he would like to be black. [laughter] i am not kidding. it wants to be black as him. [laughter] >> two things larry king has a year-old son? that is messed up. [laughter] [applause] but secondly black it is in. that has not happened in a long time. >> i did not know that you

kept track of that. >> yes. we have had are moments during the sixties we had civil-rights the 36 we had joe louis but who would compete with three super? last time we bring in is when we built the pyramids and the. >> i do not want to rein on the parade but i believe you made us a. >> like i said we were in. >> the book is "i'd rather we got casinos abd other black thoughts" the author larry wilmore, a mr. wilmore how long will this black is in period last? >> probably 42 years. it is in the seven year cycle so six are seven years cycles black will be in that we will move on to the mexicans. >> host: where did you get the title?

>> guest: a peace i did on a "daily show" talking about black history month. i said 28 days of tributes to make up 400 years of oppression and i said it "i'd rather we got casinos abd other black thoughts" i always like to that title and i thought it would be a good title for the buck. >> host: you write to the naacp. >> guest: in the book is a fig collection of offense and the first op-ed i suggest changing the name of african americans to drop the. and throughout the book series of letters to the naacp i.r.a. trying to convince them to get on the chocolate train. i wore chocolate today in honor of that. >> host: what is the impetus behind that campaign? >> guest: my feeling is african-americans it is done.

black people we changed our name we really do. it has been colored, negro, black, afro-am erican and, and we were named after a hairstyle. that is how far out it bought. [laughter] now african-americans and and and the feeling is what i think about. all i think of is hot to does not do that much there is no remittances of record me get malaria and something might be me and brothers to speak french. if i want to be around brothers to i do not understand and a hajj environment with my ancestors round i will go to the check cashing place. let's move on to the 21st century. who doesn't love chocolate? >> host: how do come up with your title senior black correspondent? >> guest: that actually the head writer at the times we

were trying to 38 of what would be the right thing? and any time you run "the daily show" the first thing in your head is steve colbert who was the best ever you do not want to imitate that and i did this did not does want to be the opposite of something and we thought it was funny that i would do a bit where i was tidying john that finally you have a black correspondent and the day thought it was funny to be the senior correspondent and own the title. >> host: redoing prior? >> guest: i was a writer producer for a number of years. the thing that was probably the what all known was the bernie mac show i had just come from doing three years of the office. i started to do a stand-up comic i thought maybe now is the time to start performing

again and i stumbled into "the daily show". >> host: how often do appear? >> guest: only once or twice a month the because of reruns and cable and the internet it feels like i am on more than i am i give the illusion that i am on the store more than i am. >> host: you are watching booktv live from "the los angeles times" festival of books. from african-americans what kind of reaction do you get to your book? >> guest: i have got angry reaction from people that read it and know about it because most people know me know my work from "the daily show" only three black people total watches "the daily show" self

it is a small audience but i think in all seriousness there has not been much black satire. some of this has a lot of black saying this is a refreshing take on a lot of issues. that makes me feel good. >> host: text messages from a birmingham jail. are you treading on sacred ground? >> guest: i don't think so that is one of the first titles i came from my head during a piece it was one of the hardest ones to write but i felt it was a really hit to right in the middle of the target some with the satirical title. >> host: larry wilmore is our guest we're on the c-span bus at the l.a. festival of books. buffalo new york go-ahead. >> caller: how are you this afternoon? >> guest: a good. her you? >> caller: when i see barack obama will probably

become president i got pretty serious about calling into c-span exclusively requesting that he address the issue of preparation for slave descendants. and i have to follow up on that how do you feel about that personally? >> guest: and the book i have a chapter called give us the superdome where i insist a lot of people want reparations and the argument is that slavery happened so long ago and i am understand that. may people today have nothing to do with slavery and rivers close to get 40 acres in the mueller we did not give up the statute of limitations but i say there has been more recent transgressions like maybe hurricane katrina give us the superdome so you can act things that you can get reparations for and go forward. >> host: jackson wyoming?

>> caller: i always like to see you on the jon stewart show. you are a real kick. the do you know, that it is estimated that michael jordan throw his career, every time his ball went to the basket he made $360,000. added teacher makes $40,000 per year. i think our priorities are screwed up if you look at the mexicans they are very family oriented they go out and get together and buy a business or share in the brent the mexicans the people thrive because it just seems that the black people are because of the black male has been levying and have a black woman be the mother and i think that stars like you or other famous

black people should be helping out the black community by loading people money for businesses. thing that would be an excellent way to help the community 51. >> guest: a barely one me to be fannie mae or freddie mac i am not sure that is the right business to get into but it sounds like to make a claim about what a lot of sociologists refer to as the destruction of the black male ego through slavery and jim crow and some of the reasons why the black female has to be dominant in the household and some of that is still around today but some of the things that pop up especially in impoverished areas and those are real concerns but i think the best thing that i can do personally is to be a role model to my own kids progress

for everybody was that we would be better off. >> host: what do think of a white collar from jackson wyoming says those black people? >> guest: i think dick cheney is from wyoming. i have nothing but love. >> host: also talking about the black community, is there such a thing? >> guest: there is a black community sort of like irvine california. there is a waiting list to get into the black community now that obama is president. it is very nice. >> host: virginia a go-ahead. >> caller: i would like to ask you your previous career with in living color and the concepts and the ideas that you came up with because it was so revolutionary. of i could get the show now i would still watch it because it was great.

>> i appreciate it. thank you for that call. all credit goes to keenan ivory wayans on that. he did a movie that was called by will give you sucker that have a lot of parity and satire and the human that day schumer that i love the broad the hip-hop culture into america's living rooms before you had black humor you do not have the satirical with the hip-hop culture the dancing and the fly girls i love watching the three runs but i do have to say imus in loving color i love that show. >> host: are you married? >> "c.s.i." em and i have a 12 year-old and a 10 year-old. i live here and i'd like to york when i do "the daily

show". >> host: you talk a go-ahead. >> caller: i enjoy hearing this conversation and people's perceptions as a transplanted philadelphia and there is maybe for chocolate people than the whole town. [laughter] and a lot of the white people are so jealous. >> guest: vanilla people. >> we are so disconnected but i want to thank you for your body of four, your humor and the way you approach things you are a beautiful human being. thank you very much the one that is very nice. i want to be on c-span every day of the week. vanilla is a very underrated flavor. it goes with chocolate very well. >> host: you have been behind the scenes allot and you are not in a more you come across as rather shy. are you? >> i was very, very shy

growing up i still have some of that in me i started as a performer i would rather be in the back of the room i am sure there is some of that in there. >> host: what is a shot lending negro? >> guest: a very important issue. this is a person like jerry coleman or webster does not grow past a certain point* much like a shovel and pulling a i say that is the way to save the system that america could not get enough so bring back the shuttle into negro that is probably one of the most and politically incorrect testimony is but i think if we bring them back we will save the sec. >> host: philadelphia you were on. >> caller: i am a big fan i

have a couple of questions. first in europe the jews are referred to as french jews are german jews you feel that african americans in the united states should be referred to as american africans instead of the sub category as african-americans? >> guest: or you can have george a black gore florida african americans and regionalize it. >> you to do that too. >> clearly your involvement with "the daily show" you what are a politically interested person are you worried about brock obama's presidency? it has brought us so much closer to a coherent american idea of multiculturalism but if his presidency fails said

he is forced into capitulation and with special interests and the financial mess, what happens then? what your feelings about that? >> guest: on the comedy side i would say i would not worry too much about change because it just give me the hope. do not reduce it to a glimmer of hope i do not want a glimmer of hope. i want to help. on the serious side i think the impact of barack obama will be felt more on the younger generation. there will not be a question that a black man can leader be in charge when i was a kid the blood could be a quarterback talk about image issues that america had put it will be given for the younger generation and not even a question if a black can lead. >> host: have you met president obama? >> guest: no. but i was on "the daily show"

he was appearing and i heard he was on satellite watching the show then i heard he was laughing at the bit i cannot remember what it was but i read a blog that he was watching the feed and somebody said he was really laughing at the bit and then he got quiet but i think i talked about his role printer something but i heard he enjoyed a for the most part. >> host: 100 days and a lot of media coverage of the first 100 days. what is your impression? >> guest: so far so good. he had this gary amazon look moment with hugo chavez and he did not want to be in his book club. [laughter] but it is overwhelming there is so much going on i cannot remember in the first 100 days were there is such a big agenda of things to do. i don't know how he is and

going at. i think michelle is a little mad she asked to take care of the dogs are probing she is too happy about that i want to see what will happen with the mother-in-law. you get to be president the most important man in the world and you have to have your mother of all the for the. good move. >> caller: you are a very funny man one chocolate man talking to another i enjoy watching you. on a serious note, what do think the opposition or the status of a jesse jackson right now compared after the election of mr. obama's? you think jesse jackson is envious, angry or happy? because nablus jesse considered still a chocolate leader and i am being

respectful. >> guest: i and a stand. it could be a combination of all three. that shot of him crying on election night was pretty powerful. budget he is not sell much the leadoff batter he is more like a third base coach giving signals and wanting to still be in the game but his legacy will always be solid he was the first viable black candidate to excite the populist but he really open the door and paved the way so i think his legacy is pretty solid in that regard. but has to be hard for anyone who has been at the front in the spotlight. keep in mind jesse as martin luther king blood on him he has seen a lot in his lifetime let alone to feel he was close to the white house so i think there's a myriad of the motions but to give him credit

he is mostly proud of the fact there is an african-american and the white house. >> host: where did you grow up? >> guest: nazi angeles my family is from chicago. my father was a probation officer and my mom was an educator a part-time teacher and part-time mom and my father went back to school to become a doctor. >> host: what do you remember most about your childhood? >> guest. [laughter] the thing i remember most my brother and i making each other laugh. my parents divorced when i was pretty young they fought a lot and i think my brother and i softened the blow by making each other laugh and it seemed that we have so many characters in our lives that everybody was a character and we had so much fun making fun of all of that stuff.

i remember laughing about a lot of things to seven on a more serious note do you remember racism? >> guest: absolutely. very much so. it was so different back then. i was born 1961 so the watts riots happened when i was very young and remember martin luther king being shot i can remember being treated a certain way and not understanding why i remember my mom writing a check in a department store but things like that at the same time i feel very fortunate that i had a lot of good friends white, black, i drop its intake a big mexican and our heavy latino area. i had a lot of friends and i

felt that helped me i did not grow up in the one culture. i sought racism more by individuals as a big institutional thing on a personal level to seven in your view it of the state's two we subgroup ourselves too much? >> guest: i think so personally the chocolate makes me laugh i love the fact we spend all of these years to desegregate then you go to the college campus you have your buck door manager white dorm and people separating themselves but a lot of that is comfort but did this funny how you fight for those but now it is so we like it like this. >> host: from "i'd rather we got casinos abd other black thoughts" random black thought number three. i am a cop and i am a brother and they let me half a taser sorry i am going to tays you. >> guest: i love you how you said brother. that was