Do You Know Jim Jones?

Many of you are familiar with the gentleman pictured on the left side. He is Jim Jones, of the Dipset collective. Artist, entrepreneur, label executive, and the list goes on. Click here to get the full scoop on him. The image on the right is that of the Real Jim Jones [birth name]. What many people don't know about this man is that he was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and a cult leader that took many followers from the United States and brought them to a makeshift village called "Jonestown" in the counrtry where i was born, Guyana. He was responsible for one the most tragic mass suicides of our time. 908 people were coerced into drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. From old to young, no one survived. The atrocities that took place in Jonestown has even been documented in the motion picture titled The Guyana Tragedy. At the time, my stepfather was an army helicopter pilot for Guyana's Defense Force. When I was younger, I remember him telling me the story of being the first person to reach Jonestown after everyone was dead. Flying over the camp, he could see bodies of babies, men, women, old & young sprawled out on top of each other like they had been dumped there from out the back of a truck. It saddens me sometimes to know that this occurrence is probably the one thing my country is most know for. Click here for the full story on The Real Jim Jones.