After writing a biography of Chris Farley and a biography of John Belushi, Tanner Colby knew that if he didn't want to be known only as the guy who writes about dead fat comedians, his next project had better be very different. At the same time, he and his friends were watching the candidacy of Barack Obama and he realized that he was spending a lot of time talking about the exciting possibility of the first black president, yet he, inexplicably, knew very few black people. He began to wonder why, 50 years after the civil rights movement, this could be true for himself, and for most of the liberal, white 30 somethings he hung around with. His book, Some of My Best Friends are Black, the Strange Story of Integration in America, is a personal survey of the places people spend most of their time - at school, in neighborhoods, at church and at work. He goes back to his own high school to find out why he hadn't made black friends as a teenager, he studies Kansas City neighborhoods to find out why cities are designed to be divided by race. He tries to find out why Martin Luther King called “Sunday Morning at 11:00 the most segregated hour of Christian America " and explores what happens when Madison Avenue decides to create separate ad agencies to sell stuff to white people and to black people. This book is well researched and filled with historical facts about race in America. It's also fast paced and showcases Colby's slightly sarcastic sense of humor.