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June 11, 2005

"Ralph Zuranski Interviewed by Sharif Khan" by Ralph Zuranski

Sharif Khan, the author of the book Psychology of the Hero Soul is the perfect person to ask Ralph Zuranski the In Search Of Heroes questions he has asked other heroes.

Sharif has followed a similar path. He has spent many years teaching others to find their own heroes within their own minds.

Sharif's definition of heroes is based on the Greek definition that means to protect and serve. He believes real heroes are everyday people who sacrifice something in their lives to help others in their family, community, business and culture. This is similar to my acronym for HEROES (H)elp, (E)nthusiastically, (R)esponsibly, (O)ptimistically, (E)xceptionally, (S)ocially, and or (S)piritually.

One of the original heroes in the first program was the actor Gregory Alan Williams, who was the black cop on the TV series Bay Watch. He actually saved an Asian man's life during the LA riots. When he went into the intersection to rescue the Asian man, that was being beaten to death in his car by an angry mob, he was protecting and serving others.

After he got the Asian man out of the car, the mob was ready to kill them both, but a Mexican man stepped in to take the beating so Gregory could get the man to a neighbor's house, who drove him to the hospital. The Asian man survived a severe concussion through the help of those who were heroes, that protect and serve others, even though they were strangers. In this situation good and evil were in a war where good won.

Gregory Alan Williams said, "There is a little bit of good in the worst of us and a little bit of bad in the best of us. When someone helps another person in any way, they become a hero for that moment in time." You can read the entire story in his book A Gathering Of Heroes.

This is the true definition of the human condition. You can hear Gregory Alan William's interview by former Coronado High School student Dan Mader by Clicking Here. It is an interview every student and adult should listent to at least three times. The wisdom is so profound and well delivered.

This is an excerpt From Publishers Weekly

Alan-Williams is an African American TV actor, who, at the height of the Los Angeles riots nearly two years ago, deliberately set out for the epicenter of the violence, determined to try to restrain his fellow blacks' anger and, if necessary, to save victims of it.

As he did so, he was mindful of the many violences done to him as a young black man growing up in largely white Iowa--and of a time, in the Marine Corps, when he had willingly participated in the beating of a fellow recruit that led to the man's suicide attempt.

At the heart of the book is a searing eyewitness account of the frightful brutality and lawlessness of that day in Los Angeles. Alan-Williams saved two people: a young light-skinned black whose attackers, whom Alan-Williams drove off, mistook for white, and a terribly injured Japanese man he rescued from his smashed car.

Alan-Williams's description of the actions and emotions of the occasion is gripping; his analysis of his own motives and of the senseless brutality of the attackers lacks any trace of the maudlin or the vengeful.

Alan-Williams thinks clearly, standing outside the vagaries of racial politics as a man of hard-won conscience--though he ruefully admits that his own anger and resentment sometimes betray him. His small but intense book is inspirational in the best sense of that much-abused word. Photos not seen by PW.

Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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