for more i am joined by larry wilmore heresey near lech correspondent. [applause] this hirth. >> it is unbelievable. obama is not only popular here, but around the world and it is not his rhetoric. is not even his smile. it is something a little more basic. >> in that regard my ynger so is h, d now says that he would like to be black. [laughter] i am not kidding. it has a lot of advantages. black is in. [laughter] >> two things jon, of larry king has an 8-year-old son. that is messed up. [appuse] also, but secondly black is in. that has not happened in a long time. >> i didn't know you kept track of that. >> oh yeah. weave had their moments for good during the 60's we had civil writes for godave us a lot of buzz. the 30's, joe louis david sale lull keat but those canno compete. the last time we were in was way back when the build the pyramids. [laughter] >> i don't want to rant on that period but i believe you made us build the pyramids. >> like i said, we were in. [laughter] >> host: the book is "i'd rather we got casinos" and the author is larry wilmor

hit right in the middle of the target zone in terms of some of these satirical title. >> host: larry wilmore is our guest and we are on the c-spa boss. the first call for him comes from buffalo, new york. goeth had buflo. >> cler: hi larry, how are you pusan afternoon? listen, i saw that bark obama was probably going to become president i got pretty ser about calling c-span exclusively, requesting that he had addressed the issue of reparations for slave descendants. bacally, and i got to follow up on that somehow youeel about that persolly? >> guest: in the book, i have a chapter called give us the superdome, where i iist that hinote, a lot of people want reparations and the argument is slavy happens so long ago and i understand tha argument. many peopltoday have nothing to do with slavery and we were supposed to get 40 acres and we didn't get a statute of limitations, i get that. in the book i argue there have been more recent transgressions that you could give reparations for like hurricane katrina, give us the superdome so you connects things that you feel you can get reparations for and

. >> book tv prime time, "the daily show's" larry wilmore talks about his book, and former lehman brothers executive lawrence mcdonnell talks about the collapse of that firm. book tv starts at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> lessons in leadership from the former head of centcom and middle east envoy, retired general tony zinni, on how leaders and organizations can best respond to the trends shaping the world. he discusses his book with former fema director julius becton, on "after words." >> in japanese elections last sunday, the liberal democratic party as it was ousted by the democratic party of japan after 50 years in power. cbs news chief bob schieffer moderate the discussion on those elections and the future of u.s. relations with japan. it is one hour. >> i would like to think it was as brilliant that we were in third time the election with this event -- that we were able to time the election with this event. we are glad to have a chance to have everybody today. coming together and talking about this election in japan, this was one of the most monumental political developments in the las