Summary

Peter Fornatale: Former Mayor Dinkins used to refer to the city as a beautiful mosaic the melting pot, so to speak. If that's the case, you are and have been a one man mosaic. You have strain you have strains of Caucasian, African American, Puerto Rican, right. And it's a touch of Cherokee as well. Garland Jeffreys: Exactly. I mean, my my father, my grandfather, side. In my childhood, one of the beautiful things that happened in my house is that it was it was the house was totally open to all kinds of people. And my uncles were my idols, you know, they had friends from everywhere, you know, mainly jazz was a big was a big sort of connecting force in those days, you know, like I said, my mother had me at 16. So, I mean, that was in the 40s. And in the 50s. And, you know, they were these all night poker parties, you had all kinds of people coming through, you know, I grew up in a neighborhood where was Jewish, a Chalian, on either side of me where we live Chinese, Afro American, we didn't we didn't really say Afro American. In those days, black is what we say, you know, it was a mixture of people. And I love the fact that that was my beginning. I love it because I carry it into my life. It's always been my life.