He was lied to and thought btees was a rap group. The original members were rappers. Ir0n was almost in the group. Supr3me Boy too. Bang has a knack for finding trainees who aren't suited for the stage and turning them into good producers. There's also Adora, but she left last year.
The Jim Jon3s scandal is sensitive because a White man lured thousands of people, many of them Black, underage, women, and impoverished, into the jungle of Guyana. Where the story diverges is if you believe they committed suicide, including the ones found in the jungle with bullet holes, or if it was an alphabet agency's job.
The bodies were allowed to rot for days in the sun and a local coroner tried to autopsy the bodies, and was turned away. He was an expert in his field. Some of the remains were discovered in a funeral home a few years ago, and finally laid to rest. The effects of this were so big that federal laws were changed for public assistance and disability benefits. Jim Jones had connections to local politicians and was a celebrity before he went to Guyana.
Among the victims were children, some reported missing because a parent took them without the other parent's permission, elderly Black women, wayward youth sent to the colony for correction, and loyal Black followers from when he was a pastor. He preached racial equality and social justice. The majority of the dead were poor Blacks. The leadership was White and most survived. Some think he used body doubles and could have survived the massacre.
The residents didn't think he was serious because he regularly held meetings asking them to commit revolutionary suicide. They were sleep deprived, malnourished, worked like slaves and held against their will. Residents that left with an America politician were killed at the airport by assassins sent by Jim Jones. Some of the survivors from the massacre were killed at the hotel they found refuge in, and at their homes in America.
Sorry to write a book, but I'm passionate about it. The death tapes of mother's being asked to kill their children, and the anguished screams of babies and children as they died are passed around on the internet. Artists have sampled his sermons and it's not ok. He was a charismatic person and could convince someone to take their own life. That's not something we should glorify. I think Sg realizes Armys are a cult, but he could have used something different.
