please go ahead with your question or comment for randall robinson. >> caller: thank you so much, randalland peter slen. bear with me, i have three questions for mr. robinson. i've been a follower of your work with transafrica, and i really want to thank you for your struggle and all the things that you have done for black people all over the world. >> guest: thank you, kwame. >> caller: all right. now, um, with my question, the first of my questions, my three questions is, question number one, what are your thoughts about imperialism as a philosophy? your work for human rights, for black people in america and all over the world highlights me egregious -- many egregious violations of human rights by the american empire. is this any different from how the roman empire or any other empire in history has mistreated peoples? >> host: kwame, if you could, very quickly your second and third questions, we'll try to get to all three. >> caller: okay, the second question. what are your thoughts about the humans' role in the overthrow and murder of gadhafi in libya, and then the third question is,

great story in history. >> host: this month on booktv's in-depth program, author and activist randall robinson. he is the author of five non-fiction books. here they are. beginning in 1998. mr. robinson wrote "defending the spirit." finally an unbrokenning a any haiti from revolution to the kidnapping of a president. 202 is the area code if you like to dial in and participate in the conversation. you can contact us via e-mail booktv@c-span.org. or social media. you can make a comment on facebook.com/booktv. or send us a tweet@booktv is the twitter han dahl. what is transafrica? >> guest: transafrica was the -- or is the organization that i began in -- 1976 to galvanize african-american opinion on foreign policy issues. particularly issues that concern the black world. u.s. policy toward africa, the caribbean, and lot -- latin america. tran africa, of course, was the organization that used -- apartheid and the embarrass -- embassy arrest we were able to organize the arrest of 5,000 people in the 1980 and 1984 and the next year. with working with member of congress we won a support for the set o

i told him that i would. >> host: randall robinson is. >> host: randall robinson's or guess it now it's turn. a call from bruce in marianna georgia. hi bruce. >> caller: thanks for having me on. i am black and i was born on the south side of chicago and i have two questions. the first question is, really, what has the black political class really done for us in terms of great victories in the last 40 years? this may be 1972, part from the illustrious careers. your career and barack's career. what have they done for us really since then a number two is susan rice nomination, when susan rice was nominated for secretary of state for whole black political class closed ranks around her as if she was some kind of martyr or as susan rice the undersecretary of african affairs in the clinton administration. she was a lobbyist for ethiopians and rwandans and our policy has been to give military aid to every country in africa. we have completely militarized our africa policy. we give military aid to every country on the continent except -- in libya and it's the only place where our foreign policy

. >> host: you are on with randall robinson. >> good afternoon. i am asian american living in south florida. i have been a follower of your work for quite a while. you came to graduate school and college during the south africa protests, spoke with your work and i remember you vividly, that was in 1986. three questions. my first question to you is currently, we have the first black president that is being celebrated by america and many people in our community and i s q how you feel about affect our first black president is sending american troops into 35 african countries and there is almost complete silence on the part of the black intelligentsia and elite in that regard and to the point where they would actually be astonished by the fact that someone with a track record and the amount of blood on our hands, african blood on our hands, susan rice would not be appointed secretary of state considering the history she has related to the african continent particularly in the condo, rwanda, and you are aware of the long, extensive, damaging history. >

glmpleght author and activist randall robinson is the founder of transafrica.n organization of african-americans advocating for human rights in africa and people of african dissent. we talked to him on the program in depth. this is three hours. >> host: what does america owe blacks? >> guest: well, it owes them an acknowledgment of what happened. we don't like to talk about that in the states. even blast history month. there's a truncated version of what woodson had in mind. now it starts in slavely and moves forward

in hour later it is more from book tv with author and activist randall robinson who has written five nonfiction books and is the founder of transafrica. at 8:00 p.m. it is american history tv with a focus on prisoner of war issues. first professor robert doyle them, a class on the history -- history of prisoners of war. we covered an even earlier from the reserve officers association, and we will have the complete program later on our program schedule, but here's a brief look. >> there are those that are saying that the guard reserve cannot get there in a timely fashion. they're saying that there too hard to get to, take too long to mobilize. the one anecdote, and anecdotes' should not return -- determine outcomes of arguments. in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the boston marathon the first picture i saw was in 15 seconds every tv across the world showed these two individuals in army fizzle camouflage right on the scene within seconds helping the wounded, severely wounded victims. i thought to myself, you know, it must be amazing that the 802nd airborne at fort bragg says