'Don T Drink The Kool-Aid'

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“Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid” Jim Jones was a monster that goes unnoticed in American history. His dictatorial actions have changed America in a powerful way. On November 18, 1978, Jones led the Jonestown massacre that left over 900 people including himself dead. However, the deaths were done willingly by his followers, making this event even more disturbing. This event definitely changed America making it the second-largest, non-natural disaster-related killing of American civilians during peacetime. It is hard to comprehend why hundreds of people would commit suicide because one man said so, but the many who participated were dedicated to a cult called the “Peoples Temple” that was started by Jones. His “church” promised equality, especially racial integration, which attracted minorities during the sixties and seventies. Even though President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on July 2, 1964, many minorities did not feel the change. Jones was the person who took it into his own hands to start a change,…show more content…
In the aftermath of the tragedy at Jonestown, the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid" became a popular expression for blind obedience, as the Temple members had apparently accepted cups of devilish fruity poison keenly. The people of America are not “drinking the Kool-Aid” that the Jonestown people did. They are knowledgeable and will not blindly jump on the “bandwagon’ that others may follow. Though, there are not any laws that can protect citizens from creating a cult or from joining one, the massacre was a lesson. Americans are now aware of the dangers of joining a group or an organization without full knowledge. They are researching and acquiring facts. There are now more respected sources to obtain information from and there are much easier ways to access them than it was in the past. Jonestown was and always will be the event that made Americans realize that they have to distinguish the real from the
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