Working toward a more perfect democracy, today we as Americans have good reason to be proud. We have arrived at a stage where as a nation we are ready to elect either a woman, an elder citizen or person of color to the office of president.

This we have done without conscious organization.

This then is part of whom we've become.

Made up of people from most parts of the world, we have succeeded in accepting that we are one humanity working toward treating each individual as an important element of that humanity.

We are still working toward that perfection and much of it will come. Race is still an important component that needs much work. But we are on our way.

We still have to accept that each of us has the right to receive all the education that our minds can absorb and we need to prepare ourselves for a nation made up highly educated people.

We then need to protect the social investment that as a society we have placed in each individual, so that each of us can easily maintain our mental and physical health in order to contribute to the good of the community.

Our final accomplishment then will be how we organize and relate ourselves to all human beings and  the humanity of the rest of the world.  This is all that we are and the role that we play in still becoming America.