To begin my civic artifact speech, I’m planning on starting off part of the quote from the poster, “We The People”. The importance of this quote is not only the repetition through its sister posters, but how these words are taken directly from the United States Constitution. Americans are quite familiar with these three words. My main point of my speech will be about what these words what these words mean to people, what they actually mean, and what they meant. The creator of the poster is Shepard Fairey, who isn’t a stranger when it comes to political posters since he made former President Barack Obama’s 2008 iconic Hope poster. Fairey made this poster along with two others with the intent to be seen as a reminder that patriotism has no religion, race, or sex. I am also planning on pointing out the importance of the kairos. This poster debuted months after the 2016 election and before Donald Trump’s inauguration. During this time, the country (and even the world) was bracing for Donald Trump’s presidency because no one knew what to really expect. From June 2015 to his inauguration, Trump’s rhetoric was something we’ve never really seen in American politics. During this time, many Americans were afraid and worried as to if and how would their day-to-day lives could change.  The imagery quite possibly plays the largest role in this. The poster features a Muslim woman wearing a hijab that looks like the American flag. The woman is actually a real person and the original picture is from 2006 on the anniversary of 9/11. Fairey’s use of this photo can be seen as a response to one of Trump’s biggest points on his 2016 platform, the Muslim Ban. This goes hand-in-hand with the caption below the picture, “We The People are Greater than Fear”. This poster acted as a way to grab the audience’s attention and to bring us all together as a country despite the division that the election caused. I also plan on talking about the initial reactions of this poster and what role they took up when they were released. The Women’s March was the day following Trump’s inauguration which can be seen as an obvious statement. Like I said previously in my last RCL post, these posters feature a Muslim woman, a black woman, and a Latina which were all demographics that feel the most threatened by the Trump administration due to comments said, tweets, and rhetoric pushed during Trump’s race to the White House. I want to end my speech by explaining to the audience what the poster means to me and maybe even ask the class what the poster means to them.