WATCH: Kenny Burns Talks The Importance Of Voting

During the ESSENCE &#039;Paint The Polls Black&#039; panel, Kenny Burns speaks on the importance of getting out to vote.

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00:00I can't fathom that people are letting lies lead them, and then I can't also see why people

00:06aren't using those same lies against the liars. We need to use all these things against them.

00:12We need to fact check. We need to present for every lie that's posted. We need to post the truth.

00:17And we got to get on our job. We're under 30 days away. It's unbelievable what's at stake.

00:22You won't have a democracy. You won't have a presidency. You won't have nothing in Georgia.

00:25Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourself. Today, the federal judge tried to overturn

00:30the abortion laws here in Georgia so that you could have freedoms and rights to your bodies,

00:36women. And I want to say that every race, I was about to say something crazy,

00:40but I know y'all getting on me because I was going toothless next and rural next.

00:44But y'all have everything to lose because the Supreme Court came in today and said no.

00:50And that's exactly why Donald Dump, I'm sorry, Trump put these people on this court.

00:57It's unbelievable. Y'all are accepting this. And you have to really, ladies and gentlemen,

01:01I don't know if you saw the insurrection on January 6th, but they bought that life.

01:06You need to be about that life too.

01:10That'll teach. I do want to say this though, when we talk about

01:15the lies, I don't think it's that people don't know that he's lying.

01:19I think it can go deeper than that because many have said they don't believe everything that he

01:25says, but it is what he represents to them. So I will take your lies and just whatever,

01:31but why is it, why so badly do some really want to see certain candidates in office?

01:37What is it that they're offering them? Is it the white supremacy tropes that they like?

01:42For others, it may be blackness. What is it? Because people will take a lie if it moves

01:48them closer to what needle that they want to get to. And for some, they think it may be moving them

01:53to whatever rationale that they have he's going to bring to them.