Craig Cobb
American white supremacist
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Key Takeaways
- Paul Craig Cobb (born 1951) is an American Canadian white supremacist and member of the Creativity movement.
- Cobb is known for his failed attempt to take over the city of Leith, North Dakota and turn it into a neo-Nazi stronghold.
- Cobb purchased at least twelve plots of land in Leith, with the goal of moving in other white supremacists and taking over the city government, despite heavy opposition from locals.
- In October 2013, Cobb was featured as a guest on The Trisha Goddard Show , where he met with the lone black resident of Leith and his white wife.
- The episode featured Shahrazad Ali, who agreed with Cobb on the concept of racial separation.
Paul Craig Cobb (born 1951) is an American Canadian white supremacist and member of the Creativity movement. He is also the founder of the now-defunct video sharing website Podblanc.
Cobb is known for his failed attempt to take over the city of Leith, North Dakota and turn it into a neo-Nazi stronghold. The community had only sixteen residents as of the 2010 census, which was the latest at the time. Cobb purchased at least twelve plots of land in Leith, with the goal of moving in other white supremacists and taking over the city government, despite heavy opposition from locals. Welcome to Leith, a documentary film about Cobb's attempt to take over Leith, was broadcast in 2015.
In October 2013, Cobb was featured as a guest on The Trisha Goddard Show, where he met with the lone black resident of Leith and his white wife. The couple said that their lives were being disrupted and that their experience in Leith since Cobb moved in was being ridden with "turmoil and deception". The episode featured Shahrazad Ali, who agreed with Cobb on the concept of racial separation. In a November 2013 interview, Goddard revealed the results of a DNA test, to which Cobb had agreed, indicating that he was genetically 14 percent Sub-Saharan African. Cobb dismissed the results as statistical noise. However, Cobb retested himself with Ancestry DNA, which allegedly showed that he has 100% European ancestry.
Youth and early adulthood
Cobb was born in Maryville, Missouri, US on October 9, 1951 and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, US. He says he was raised as a Christian, but has since denounced Christianity, saying "I don't understand Christians. They have a need to be morally superior than the next guy. ... They are very threatened by anything with racial cohesion."
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