One thing jones promised was an idealistic prejudice free vision of society. Keep in mind many of his victims were poor black elderly people who had likely seen

One thing jones promised was an idealistic prejudice free vision of society. Keep in mind many of his victims were poor black elderly people who had likely seen the harshest era of jim crow racism. They were old in the 1970s meaning that some had likely experienced racial terrorism & seen lynchings & kkk rallies. A white man preaching equality and justice to such an oppressed people would seem messianic.