An anti-Semitic white supremacist who is trying to establish an all-white town in the US has been told in front of a TV audience of millions that he has recent African ancestry.
Craig Cobb has achieved notoriety for buying up properties in Leith, North Dakota to found a “racially conscious community”. However, DNA tests conducted for a Race in America segment on The Trisha Show reveal that Cobb is 14 per cent sub-Saharan African, meaning he falls short of his own racial purity benchmark.
Confronted with the findings by presenter Trisha Goddard amid howls of approval from the audience, Cobb dismissed them as “statistical noise” and “short science”. He maintained a fixed grin until Black British ex-pat Goddard called him ‘bro’ and attempted to bump fists. Unlike the hysterical Black guest with whom he was sharing the stage, Cobb was clearly not amused and pulled his hand away from his host.
When Goddard quipped, “Sweetheart, you’ve got a little Black in you,” 62-year-old Cobb responded, “I’ll tell you this; oil and water don’t mix.” He said he would still consider himself a “border guard for the purebreds,” even if another test showed similar results.
Cobb, whose activities have seen him deported from Estonia and arrested in Canada, was appearing on the talk show having recently purchased a home and 12 other lots in Leith, with the aim of setting up the racially exclusive town he planned to call “Village of the Damned.” Other neo-Nazis have also been attracted to the town.
The pre-recorded edition of The Trisha Show is to be aired in America on November 18, although Cobb has appeared on the show a number of times, most recently in October, when he met with Bobby and Sherill Harper, the sole 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 ridden with “turmoil and deception”. According to Cobb, he purchased the properties he now owns from willing sellers who support his belief that like-minded people should be able to live together. The Harpers say they have no plans to move away.
The US National Socialist Movement, the country’s largest neo-Nazi party, has stated its ambition to seize control of Leith’s town council.
