So my name's Ozzie Arrujo.

I'm born and raised in Forest.

This is like the Forest Hills-Rigo Park border.

Yeah, this was my elementary school, PS-175, right across the street.

He was very lucky.

And for some reason, I was still always late.

So much of our storytelling up to this point has focused on a black and white racial divide in District 28.

But that's changed.

In 1970, Forest Hills was 97% white. It's not like that today. Ozzi Orujo's family is part of that change.

My parents are born in Goa, India, and they immigrated to America in the 70s. And yeah,

here I am.

Ozzie told me a lot of people when they first meet him think he's Latino because of his last name.

It's Portuguese, so it's actually Ata Ujj.

So everybody's like, you have a Portuguese last name, but you're from India.

But yeah, the Portuguese colonized India just like the Spanish colonized South America and the Caribbean.

Ozzie is in his late 30s. He oversees after-school programs for the Queens Community

House.

When diversity planning came to District 28, Ozzy was on the diversity working group.

He has a lot of firsthand experience going to diverse schools.

Just growing up around so many different communities and ethnicities, like, I thought

this was what America was.

I remember, you know, at PS-175, in the auditorium, we'd sing these, like, sort of American

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