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I do know you have a choice of where you can listen each and every day. And I thank you so much for keeping it tuned here to Chosen Generation Radio, where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. And I'm so excited to have a gentleman who I had the privilege of getting to meet at CPAC in Dallas joins us. And he is fighting just an incredible battle on behalf of his district, the 43rd congressional district in my home state where I was born and raised.
I live in Texas now, but it is a state that I was born and raised in. And I'm very pleased to welcome to the program, Joe Collins. Joe, welcome. Good to have you, sir. Thanks for being here. Absolutely, Pastor Greg. Thank you for having me. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Well, you know, you talk a lot and I love, I love again your opening on your website. And I encourage all of my audience to go to JoeCollinsForCongress.com. JoeCollinsForCongress.com and watch his conversation that he'll have with you about what's happening in the neighborhood that he grew up in. I did a lot of ministry in South Modesto when I lived in Modesto out on what we used to call South Side.
And saw a lot of the stuff that you're talking about in this video there. Joe, talk to me about your district and talk to me about some of the unique things that your district is facing and that you'd like to see changed for those people. Well, I'm in California's 43rd district currently. We know that redistricting is coming up, so it will end up changing the way the district outline is. Right now we have half of Inglewood, South Valley to West Mount West Memphis area, Hawthorne, Gardena. We have half of Torrance, West Carson, the airport area, which is the Westchester area, Lawndale and Lomita. And I think one of the biggest issues that we have right now, one of the biggest challenges, which is common to every single city that's ran by Democrats, is the lack of quality jobs.
I cannot stress this enough. The people in my community don't have quality jobs. The cost of living, especially in California, is rising. We have increased homelessness, gang violence, domestic violence.
And I think the majority of the issue comes from people struggling to take care of the families. And so one thing that I want to see happen is I want more quality jobs coming back to our community. You know, I talked to Dr. Ben Carson on Friday, and one of the things that we discussed was, you know, under the previous administration, the opportunity zones, you know, going in and encouraging private money, private business to invest in neighborhoods like what you're talking about. And he was talking about, and I wish I could remember now the specific location, and I apologize, Joe, but there was a particular area where, you know, where they were rehabilitating guys that were coming out of prison. And one of the things that they were doing was, is that they got some employers to agree to go in and start meeting with these young people and start sharing and getting training in place.
And then when they came out, they gave them a job. And my co-host on the program, Don Jans, had asked Dr. Carson, he said, well, what, you know, what can we do to change attitudes, you know, to change how they might be, you know, this, that, and the other. And Dr. Carson said, look, it's not about attitudes. It's about opportunities.
Attitudes change with opportunities. We didn't have to do, we didn't have to reeducate anybody. We just simply had to say, hey, here's an opportunity to work and get a job. And they got a job and they started working. And once that all started, everything else about everything else they'd been involved in, they didn't want to do any of that anymore.
They didn't want to be engaged in that because they had a choice. It makes a difference. Yeah, it does. And I think within a vision, especially with people, with young people coming out of the prison system is absolutely important. And I think that, you know, once you pay your debt to society for whatever it is that you did to get there, you should be afforded an opportunity to live as an American and do what it takes to live your version of the American dream. And it comes absolutely with opportunity. But I think that we have to start providing an opportunity before people even enter into the life of crime and that prison system pipeline, because it's like a circle.
It keeps coming back around, especially if that opportunity doesn't, you know, present itself for you to be able to take it and be something different with your life. Now, I remember, you know, ministering at, you know, at some of the shelters and even, you know, going in and getting a chance to minister. My holy hip hop show reached a lot of the, you know, penitentiaries in areas and what have you.
And we do that now. This program in South Texas actually gets into a number of the penitentiaries that are down in South Texas. And I get letters from those guys. You know, I get correspondence from them. And a number of them have given their lives to Christ as a result of the program. And I'm honored by that.
I'm grateful for that. But exactly what you said about, you know, it becomes a cycle. And, you know, part of breaking that cycle is creating opportunities before the cycle takes hold, before that even becomes a thing. We've got to start, you know, I mean, part of it too, though, Joe, is getting rid of the bad elements that are, you know, inhibiting the businesses in that area that are some of which are already there from being able to create those opportunities. Yeah, that's, that's true as well. But that's going to come with us being able to engage people in these communities on a level that they can understand, you know, and start trying to push talking points on people who just need to get their rent paid or just need to, you know, get daycare paid or just struggling to find opportunities.
And until we become sympathetic towards the issues of the people who live in this community, you know, ourselves is going to be facing the same cycle of complaining about the things that go on in inner city without being a product of the solution. So it's a fine line then, really, Joe, between, you know, I mean, when you, as a preacher, you know, if I don't address sin, and I simply say, God killed his son, because he loves you. You know, I mean, you know, I've got five kids.
Joe, I love you, man, but I'm not going to kill any of my kids to try to make you think that I love you. Okay. However, you know, so we have to address, you know, the issue of what's wrong. We have to call out, you know, bad behavior.
But I hear what you're saying. Then it becomes a situation where there's a sensitivity to the idea that because I call out bad behavior, you know, that it's calling everybody, I don't know, somehow connected to that bad behavior. I don't, I mean, scripture says that all have sinned, right? So it doesn't matter if you're red, brown, yellow, black, or white. Every person has a sin issue until they're encountered by Christ.
That's the gospel I read. But I hear what you're saying. There's a sensitivity to the idea then, well, okay, wait a minute.
Now, are you saying that, you know, everybody who lives in my neighborhood is bad because we have this one, you know, this group, this bad gang, this whatever that's going on, that's the fine line. That's where we've got to somehow break through that barrier, address where the real issue is, and get past it being, I don't know, what, community connected? Yeah, it's going to have to be something extremely major.
It's going to be necessary. Especially when we talk about changing the mindset of people who are conditioned to believe a certain thing for so long. Right.
On all sides of the equation, right? Yes, yeah, absolutely. I mean, because it's, you know, but don't you think that part of this, too, is the responsibility of educators as an example that I think, you know, indoctrinate? I mean, like, for example, there's been a lot of pushback about the issue of CRT because, and I've watched school board meetings and listened to black parents expressing as much concern as white parents about it because, again, it's the idea of, oh, now we're going to look at the color of somebody's skin and we're going to say, okay, that means there must be hate there because of the color of skin. It's, we've got to stop that process. Yeah, you know, but we can't just go directly to the educators, right? We have to go past that. We have to start looking at the unions.
We have to start looking at the school boards. We've got to start looking at the local governments that are allowing, uh, as you like this to take place. I mean, you can't tell somebody through CRT that because of their skin color, that they're less of a person, more of a person than somebody else is without understanding if that's Google system is failing because of lack of resources from, from the, uh, from the school board. And so, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a deeper issue even when it comes to critical race theory.
And, you know, I don't know border 27, um, for orange County board of education to listen to scholars talk about critical race theory, the origins then, and it's kinda, it's kinda crazy the way this whole thing plays out. And it seems like, and correct me if I'm wrong, that it's another way to keep people dependent on the government. It tells people of color, like you can never be greater than where you are right now because of something white people did in the past. And so you have to rely on the government and it tells white people that because of your ancestors, you can't continue to progress on a level faster than everybody else.
So you need to depend on the government. That's what it sounds like to me, you know, what it is control. Right.
Yes. It's it's. And I think, thank you because I think you cut to the heart of it right there, Joe. It's what we have to understand.
And I, I wasn't, you know, I agree with you. You can't just focus on education. You've got to talk media. You've got to talk government.
You've got to talk unions. You've got to, I mean, there's a whole mindset that is all about trying to control us by the use of narratives that they have drilled in to our, to, to, to many American psyche that, that are, that are just absolutely that it's been kind of like the frog in the pot. It's slowly killing us off. Joe, when we get back, don't go anywhere. Cause when we get back, Joe, I want you to talk about how you're approaching this cause you're going to be an agent of change to fix these issues.
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I'm your host, Pastor Greg. My special guest is Joe Collins. Be sure and check out the website Joe Collins, C-O-L-L-I-N-S, Joe Collins for Congress dot com.
Joe Collins for Congress dot com. Joe, you just said something to me that I think is so profound and it's one of the things that I think as ministers we get asked a lot and that is, you know, why doesn't God just immediately fix everything on earth? And you said, you know, if we've been able to change the world in the last 14 minutes, you know, how many people that, you know, pray to God when things are tough, forget about him when things are good. There's so much truth in that. Oh my gosh. So much wisdom there, Joe. So much wisdom.
But we've only got about three minutes left here, you and I today. Talk to me about the changes that you hope to be able to create as the Congressman from this district. Well, as a Congressman, the first thing I want to do is I want to be the leader that shows people how to lead and not just talk about leading. I want to be able to engage with people in a regular basis and show them that I believe that they should be accustomed to the same way they've been shown that living in poverty has became a norm. But, you know, aside from that, improving education is obviously one of my top goals, improving the relationship between law enforcement and the community.
Infrastructure, the extreme rebuilding of our district is extremely poor and bringing back those quality jobs. I think these are the basics to having a productive society where everybody can strive for greatness. Everybody can live their best version of their American dream.
You know, opportunity. I mean, I think that's that at the end of the day, that's what all Americans should be hoping for, for each other, is to create the freedom from that. And what I hope we're doing here consistently is pushing back against media indoctrination, educational indoctrination, government overreach, governmental indoctrination. You talked about it. Both sides being pushed to believe that government is where the answer is.
Folks, the answer is God and the answer is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, inalienable rights granted to us by our creator. And where those don't exist, we need people like Joe Collins fighting to make sure that they do. And Joe, I appreciate you, you know, picking up this challenge because it's not just cliches and it's not just done in a speech. It's done in action.
Absolutely. Joe, again, remind folks how they can get in touch with you and what do you need? What's the biggest thing that folks can do to help you? You can go to my website, joecollins4congress.com, follow me on all social media platforms, at joecollins3. And one of the biggest things that people can do is donate to our campaign so we can continue to engage people in our community and also send a note saying support us. We need people to make phone calls. We need people to volunteer and get out of the streets. And you know, folks, look, you know, we're going to turn this thing around, you know, one person at a time.
And I met Joe in Dallas. I've been impressed with Joe ever since I saw his first commercial where he just really kind of called out Maxine Waters for what's going on there in her district. And Joe, I'm so thankful and grateful to have you running and I really appreciate you coming on and us having this conversation today.
I think it's an important one and one that needs to continue. So please keep up the good work, sir. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you.
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