Jim Jones grew up very much an exile of society, and had an understanding of the troubles minorities faced in not being accepted. “Feeling as an outcast, I’d early developed a sensitivity for the problems of blacks,” he said, “As a child I was undoubtedly one of the poor in the community, never accepted, born as it were on the wrong side of the tracks”. These statements show to you just how much he understood the strife of other isolated, oppressed and lonely groups of minorities and people and such allowed him to create a place where they felt that they belonged, because they connected to him too. Jones offered a place where people could be more than themselves, people of color, older people, young college students, they all belonged somewhere now. Jones was able to gain their trust and make them feel like he was really ready to help them, and the change the world. It gave them a place to finally feel they were accepted for who they were and would not be judged and he had finally made so many of them happy.
JIM JONES: Exposed
Inside the making of america's most well-known cult leader