To understand and gain perspective on the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States and the Trump Administration's response, Lazerwitz started reading through the President's Daily Briefs from 1968 - a pivotal year in American politics and the Civil Right's Movement. While reading through these briefings, she came across the phrase 'There is nothing significant to report at this time.' This phrase really struck Lazerwitz and to her it encapsulated all her feelings about how the government was responding to Black Lives Matter as well as the pandemic. The phrase also came from a report that was written two days after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Although the phrase itself was not necessarily in direct comment to that event, Lazerwitz felt that it represented how the US government has so often responded to issues surrounding civil rights and racism throughout the country's history. By taking this phrase, and making it the subject of a rug, Lazerwitz is giving it weight as well as taking it out of a forgotten government document and putting it back in the public realm. Finally, she is using a strategy favored by the current administration – taking a phrase out of context - but this time the result is anything but 'fake news'.
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