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Time To Think...
As I've been settling into my new home in Savannah, GA, new discoveries and insights have emerged that link my personal family heritage...
Alfred Heath
Sep 27, 202310 min read
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All Good Things Must Pass (and Hopefully Bad Things Too)...
Hello, dear readers of all hues and views. I know. It's been a while. Life has pulled me back into the current, and I have a lot of swim...
Alfred Heath
May 21, 20234 min read
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Why I don't accept your whitewashed apology for your whitewashed Black history...
Apology, when genuine, honest, heartfelt; when accompanied by full disclosure and atonement, is powerful in its vulnerability. It's full...
Alfred Heath
Jan 18, 20234 min read
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It isn't me...
It's you. You were there then. You are here now. You had eyes to see, ears to hear, a mind to think, and a conscience to guide you. And...
Alfred Heath
Oct 23, 20212 min read
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To Messrs. (and Mmes.) Holland:
Has a song ever snuck up on you, seemingly out of nowhere, and tugged so hard on your heartstrings that it brought tears that you didn't...
Alfred Heath
Jul 24, 20214 min read
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Happy Liberation Day! Happy Juneteenth!
How great it is to FINALLY be able to commemorate this celebration of The United States of America making a truly profound stride toward...
Alfred Heath
Jun 18, 20211 min read
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Learning about Racism: The "Five M" Model
In which order (or where on the continuum) did you discover the existence of racism? You could categorize your level of insight using my...
Alfred Heath
Mar 20, 20214 min read
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The damage of Social Darwinism is in my DNA
Anybody remember the book The Bell Curve and the controversy over its argument of scientific proof of intellectual inferiority of Black...
Alfred Heath
Mar 6, 20215 min read
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"Can we do this without really doing anything?" (Subtitle: "Who's the fairest of them all?")
Black History Month is almost over. Why did I wait to post? Well, this blog is NOT about concentrating all of our recognition of black...
Alfred Heath
Feb 25, 20214 min read
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The Art of Leveraged Momentum
As events in the U.S. have unfolded over the past year, the turbulence on both sides came to a head. In the fight for dominance of...
Alfred Heath
Jan 24, 20211 min read
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Auld Lang Syne?
I have wondered at these lyrics, lifted from the Robert Byrnes poem for the song (don't feel bad for Robert; he lifted most of the lyrics...
Alfred Heath
Jan 4, 20212 min read
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Read this book.
Your reading this book will save me hours of blogposting so I can focus the time I spend here on self-expression and sharing my own life...
Alfred Heath
Dec 15, 20201 min read
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Grateful and Hopeful; NOT Hateful
Grateful for my life and all the learning, love, fun, and meaning discovered and shared therein. Grateful to have been born at a time...
Alfred Heath
Nov 27, 20201 min read
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Lost and Found: Christopher Columbus and America's Two Faces
Holiday weekend today, everybody! What holiday? Why, the one everyone forgets about unless they are planning a weekend vacation or...
Alfred Heath
Oct 9, 20205 min read
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Why and How I also See the Best in Humanity
Some of you, both white and black, may wonder whether I have become "bitter and twisted" from past and present racism I have experienced,...
Alfred Heath
Aug 9, 20205 min read
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Let's play a game
We used to love to play the board game called Chutes and Ladders. The board is basically a snaking trail of squares making a gradually...
Alfred Heath
Aug 4, 20203 min read
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Are you ready?
I get that white people can be touchy about the "'r' word." How could I not? If I mention racism in regard to something certain white...
Alfred Heath
Aug 1, 20204 min read
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Victims of the State
Seeing more clearly the historical and current institutional, systemic, deliberately orchestrated, and --increasingly since the Civil...
Alfred Heath
Jul 24, 20205 min read
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One Black Man's Healing Manifesto
When I would hear people say “why can’t you just move on” or “Can’t you see all this is in the past?” or “This is America: You are what...
Alfred Heath
Jul 13, 202011 min read
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A pause for my brother
Hello folks. Sorry to be away for so long. I have been working on a multi-part series of posts about my ancestors story as passed down...
Alfred Heath
Jul 11, 20201 min read
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