my friend jose antonio vargas who some of you may have heard of, a remarkable person who's a pulitzer prize-winning journalist and a contributor to "american life," about almost two years ago he came out. and the way he came out it wasn't about sexuality, he came out as undocumented. he wrote a story in "the new york times"es magazine and said i'm now going to tell the world what only a small number of people in my life have known which is i am an illegal immigrant. and he did so, obviously, at great personal peril, but he did so because he felt like there are so many people in a situation like his, undocumented americans, who by definition have no voice, who are afraid to make a voice heard and be that he, as somebody who has that voice who as a journalist, as a pulitzer winner had access to platforms of voice had an obligation. he had not just the right to say what he thought, he had an obligation to pass on that right to other people. and so he spoke up. but then he did more than speak up, he created a project called define american. so if you go to defineamerican.org, you see this