WATCH: Ashley Jackson Speaks On How To Start The Conversation About Voting

During the ESSENCE &#039;Paint The Polls Black&#039; panel, Ashley Jackson speaks on how to start the conversation about registering to vote.

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00:00How do you engage with folks about apathy in this year's election? What do you what are you saying?

00:05What are you hearing in your circles?

00:07Yeah, it's it's been really challenging because my spirit is one of those like I want to say something immediately

00:13How dare you that this is the history? This is where we come from do it for your ancestors and then I go

00:17Okay, that may not be the best way to

00:20Communicate my my desire to engage with this individual and so I've often in a myriad of ways started with saying

00:27Okay, what do you believe?

00:28Where are you because trying to meet someone where they're not is not really going to be helpful and in moving a conversation forward

00:34So oftentimes if someone I know says like, you know what? I I don't really think I need to vote in this election

00:40Okay

00:40well

00:41Then let's talk about that and figure out why you don't think that way and then maybe I can introduce a new thought

00:46That might persuade you otherwise

00:48And so I think that I've had a lot of success recently with kind of shifting in in minor ways

00:53Opening the door to conversation because I've learned that if you just go gung-ho and try to tell them all the things people aren't

00:59Listen, so yeah, that's been that's been my method to to find ways of common connection to

01:05Move conversations in a spherical fashion that will result in at least registration

01:10I

01:11Hope to get you to the polls

01:13But we have to start somewhere and registering especially on a day like today where this is the last day in so many states to

01:18Register. It's like this is this is this is step one if I could if I couldn't get you here

01:22Where are we gonna go in November?

01:28You