So we not gon talk about the Jonestown massacre 40 years on?

[Dr. Acula]

My grandmother was invited to a church gathering with my uncles and mother when they visited her city before the big move to Guyana. They purposely targetted mostly poor black folks for recruitment .

My grandmother went and saw armed guards at the door and just felt the whole thing was off. She pretty much decided the shyt was mad weird and had no interest in joining the church.

Of course, seeing what happened in the end was reassuring for my grandmother's decision making abilty.

 

[DaRealness]

Wasn't the whole thing some CIA mind control experiment?

 

[Self_Born7]

Wasn't the whole thing some CIA mind control experiment?

thats what i read as well

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Gave us our greatest Harlem rappers name. Also gave us the saying don't drink the koolade

 

[TEH]

Most people are burning in hell

Fixed

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

 

[FreedMind]

 

[the cac mamba]

:hovtrump:

 

[NYC Warrior]

I heard no one really gave a fukk around that time because they was mostly poor black folks that got caught up in that shyt.

Black folks still caught up in cults and weird religions to this day. shyt even waco texas had black folks in it.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

It's damn scary and disturbing. I remember watching a documentary on Jonestown as a kid and being uncomfortable for weeks. It stayed on my mind, and to hear those kids crying from pain as their parents forced cyanide down their throats -- some willingly, others at gun point -- is incomprehensibly disturbing. Cults are genuinely terrifying. You make a group of people believe something strongly -- regardless of how illogical -- and they'll literally follow you into the depths of hell. Often, those who take most advantage of this defect in human nature are those who shouldn't be given a platform at all. A guy like Jim Jones should have had a bullet put through his head long before he set foot in a pulpit, but true evil is fairly adept at deception.


What made Jones even more sinsiter is that the piece of shyt explicitly sought to exploit disenfranchised blacks, preying upon the elderly in particular. He adorned his manaical and sinister drivel up in the sheets of civil rights and religion. Blacks often turned to spirituality to cope with their daily struggles of being considered second class citizens. He had an easy two-for-one. Reading about his background prior to Jonestown, he was clearly a mad man. The entire ordeal was pure insanity.

Exactly. This is y folks need to be more skeptical instead of being guillible.

Crazy how cults prey on the emotionally weak. Gotta be mentally strong.

 

[@OffHalsted]

The authorities need to stop this crazy sum bytch before he do the same

 

[ultraflexed]

My mom's family use to go there, the stories I could tell

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Also gave us the saying don't drink the koolade

Came to post this...


But the whole jonestown thing is wild, I couldn’t imagine blindly following someone

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Madness

 

[Killer Instinct]

This is a great source for anyone interested.

About Jonestown – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple


For reference, some of the photos of those who died that day.

- Marcus Anthony

- Shantrell Akpon

- Lillian Boyd

- Christa Wayborn

- Beatrice Mazell

- Bette Jean Guy Byrd

- Amanda Denise Brown

- Keith Jeross

- Donald Wayne

- Christine Miller (Vocally opposed the mass suicide on audio and died a hero. She was on an island & was undoubtedly terrified, but her voice never loses poise and her disposition never falters. To this day, hearing her defy Jones chokes me up.

Her story: Christine Miller: A Voice of Independence – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple
)

Truthfully, the Jonestown ordeal makes me about as angry as it does sad.