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Craig Cobb | |
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| Born | Paul Craig Cobb October 9, 1951 Maryville, Missouri, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American, Canadian[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Owner of defunct Podblanc, activist |
Paul Craig Cobb (born 1951)[2] 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.[3][4][5][better source needed][6][better source needed]
Cobb is known for his 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.[7] 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.[8] However, Cobb retested himself with AncestryDNA, which allegedly showed that he has 100% European ancestry.[9]
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Edmontonwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Craig Cobb". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ Kärmas, Mihkel (9 November 2006). "Rassism on minu religioon" [Racism is my religion]. Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian). Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
- ^ Cobb, Craig (24 March 2010). "Deprogram". Podblanc. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
- ^ "Looky Who Wants To Come To Canada: Craig Cobb". Anti-Racist Canada. 11 August 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2010 – via www.blogspot.com.
- ^ Lindstedt, Martin (21 April 2009). "The Christian Identity News Network vs. Corn Cobb's Podblanc". vBulletin. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
- ^ "No Blacks Allowed In My All White Town Says Craig Cobb". The Trisha Goddard Show. 14 October 2013. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ Boodman, Eric (16 August 2017). "White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don't like what they find". STAT News. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Abel, Sarah. "Statistical noise or genetic certainty? White supremacist identity claims and the ambiguous objectivities of genetic ancestry". Politika. Retrieved 20 November 2022.