 good afternoon pastor david yes it is john i just want to make sure this is recording good want to welcome everybody to a random moment with pastor david unfiltered and you know today pastor is it's tuesday we try to stay current we try to stay updated on current events so for those who are tuning in today you'll hear this unfiltered mostly towards the current events and then on thursdays when we get together and in chit chat it's a biblical based and church more centered on the church today pastor you know i've been hearing across the news that uh that our administration is pushing the vaccine card and identification in almost everything i mean to go to the gym you need an id to uh idea or a vaccine card all these restaurants a number of different things where they're mandated mandatory shown you their vaccine card and an identification and now it seems like our administration is really laxed about voting that you don't need an id and that are the president came out and was even comparing some of the republicans to bull Connor and and actually he was he was actually comparing democrats democrats that's right we it's kind of combining the two yes he was good yeah that's right but we see this kind of this double standard you know uh we see our administration pushing for the vaccine and the and and the mandate all that and when it comes to voting and there just seems to be a double standard i want to get your feedback on this yeah yeah this will be a short answer because i'm obviously not a political pundit by any means but yeah i find it kind of odd i find it odd because in the midst of the summer of riots that we had not that long ago there were quite a number of cities that were under attack right and and so much violence that took place in all and and yet we have we have vice president as well as president and others who are saying that what they're calling the insurrection insurrection on january 6 they they put it in the same category so right from the beginning the attempt to to apparently not deal with the reality of what this nation is going through and then to kind of pivot to take our attention away from those kinds of things and then to put our attention on issues related to the suppression quote unquote of voters rights and and this specter of racism i believe is being used to take our attention or the attention of of the uh average american away from the situation we find ourselves in as a nation with the southern border and and the fentanyl that's coming in and the trafficking of children and and all of those things it seems to me pretty obvious that our attention is being diverted from the incredible inflation that is taking place even now and and the dissatisfaction of the average voter concerning the way the government is handling the covid crisis and and the things that relate to that and so i find it interesting that we have seen a pivoting from the issues that people actually do care about and then intention being given to things like a supposed suppression of voter rights uh we were talking just a little while ago about this particular uh restaurant that that will um um deliver tacos you know we happen to like tacos right and so uh so i looked up this particular establishment that sells tacos and i thought well maybe they can maybe they can deliver a few to us right why not right and and so i looked at the page and the page said that they will not send us any tacos if we don't have a a major credit card and a photo identification uh so i have to have a major credit card and a photo id to get tacos from this taco place but i don't need anything like that to go and cast a vote i don't even have in some places i don't even have to be a citizen of the united states to find my vote being counted and see so yeah there's a um there is a uh a major problem i would say john related to uh the direction this this this nation is going and the obvious fact that i do not believe for a single moment that there is a suppression of voters rights i don't believe that and i don't think the average person does either i think what we have is a smoke screen i believe what we have is a boogeyman that has been set up and that boogeyman has orange hair and that's why it's working see they the companies like cnn and others are losing up to 90 percent of viewership because they don't have a boogeyman to to keep people afraid of and up to 90 percent of viewership is is lost on cnn right now that they're not letting you know that but the craziness of the things that they say requires to have uh some straw man that they can attack constantly and see that that trump hasn't been in office for a year they don't have anything to rattle against anymore so they make things up or they blame or whatever it's what they're doing and uh and so now the the boogeyman and it's been that way for a while now is racism and so how do you solve racism is racism going to be solved by by legislation by passing laws that say you cannot dislike people i i believe what we have is selective racism i also believe what we're seeing is a uh diminishing of what actually does constitute true racism and a utilization of a word that is actually emptying it of its content by by whitewashing so many people um as being white supremacists or whatever and that's what's really taking place and i think the average american knows that you know i i'm a mexican american just because i'm light skinned doesn't mean that that that isn't my heritage that's who i am you know and i have my own cultural biases i have my own cultural things that i like and things that i don't like we all have a right to that and when they're sinful i have to turn those things over to the lord so i can be the man he wants me to be but we all have our preferences we have we all have our cultural things that we like i mean just now we're talking about tacos not that people watching who aren't mexican don't like them i think everybody in california in one way or another must like a taco i mean they they must but what we do is we create a fiction we create something to to to say this is bad this is bad and these people are all bad because they believe this and that's what's taking place right now so when it comes to voting i'll just close with the thought when it comes to voting i am a hundred percent behind showing id i believe that whether you're black or brown or white yellow red whatever you want to be we all have forms of id you can't get on a plane without an id you can't go from the united states to a foreign country without a passport or a form of id and to say that one particular group of people are incapable of having an id is racist it's racist and and yet beautiful for some reason don't understand that and we just celebrated the memorial of martin luther king jr who a man i admired tremendously you know man who that when i think the sacrifice this man made um i i actually tear up because i think that he he was a very courageous man who did what he did in the name of the lord as he was seeking for the little black children little white children to be able to actually be united in a nation that had had had matured past hatred so i'm i'm again i'm i'm a mexican and i'm a mexican american i i don't i don't run around saying the things i've experienced but i have i've experienced it as every minority in one form or another has endured you know the the the the things that have been said the attitudes that have been expressed towards me because of my culture but you know what um the answer to that isn't going to be me getting angry um the answer to that is is changed hearts and that's why i i that's why i preach a gospel of transformation so that we can be one in jesus christ and so yes i believe that we need to be sensitive to the the fact that racism is being used right now as a a straw man to take our attention off of the failures of the administration this present administration there's never been an administration that doesn't have failures but this particular administration uh has really shown itself for what it is and so we need to pray for our nation we need to be aware of what's going on but we also need to realize that we have the power of the vote and we should utilize it amen well pastor thank you so much for uh sharing this it's you know it's it's obvious and and um it's like the Dracula or that costume that that you do you tell your church about you come one time and once more candy comes again but now they're just uh it's it's just everything so revealed it's open it's open yes and so well church family thank you for tuning in pastor thank you for taking the time and uh with unfiltered we do want to invite you our church family to our wednesday evening services which is tomorrow pastors taking us through the book of Ephesians yep and we'll also be celebrating communion yes it'll be our first communion it'll be the first communion of the year yes and so want to invite you guys to come out and join us and then we have our sunday morning services at 8 30 and 10 45 and then we have our superbowl breakfast coming up that's going to be february 5th at 8 30 you can purchase tickets online or you can actually go to the gazebo we'd love to see you there pastor thank you again for your time and church family god bless you and we'll see you soon