18 / November
18 / November
The Original Kool-Aid Drinkers

Jim Jones killed more African Americans than the Ku Klux Klan. Julia Scheeres, in her book, "A Thousand Lives," juxtaposes the preacher with Rosa Parks and the students who held a lunch-counter sit-in at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's. Thirty-three years ago today, the people of Peoples Temple committed "revolutionary suicide" by drinking fruit-flavored poison. On November 18, 2011, some people are still drinking the Peoples Temple's Kool-Aid. Read my book review @ the American Conservative of Julia Scheeres' "A Thousand Lives" on the anniversary of America's worst pre-9/11 loss of civilian life.

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