Posted on 08/24/2015 12:59:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After white supremacist Craig Cobb tried and failed to start a whites-only enclave in the tiny North Dakota town of Leith, he set his sights on another community: Antler, population 20-something.
But establishing a presence in the town, just a few minutes from the Canadian border, has proved difficult for Cobb.
Last month, he says, he bought $10,000 worth of property in the town's center from Jim Lozensky, who until recently was an Antler resident.
The sale included an old bank and two nearby residential lots. Cobb wanted to turn the bank into a church for his racist religion, Creativity Movement, which teaches the superiority of white people. The residential lots would be for church members to settle and start a new community together.
He also planned to change the town's name to "Trump Creativity," or "Creativity Trump," in honor of Donald Trump, who Cobb admires deeply.
Needless to say, "Some of the citizens aren't happy with the situation," said Steve Watson, the sheriff of Bottineau County.
Luckily for them, the properties are going to the city, rather than to Cobb, Mayor Bruce Hanson said.
Lozensky, the property seller, "took a down payment from Cobb on the property, and the city made an offer also," said Hanson. Lozenksy decided to sell to the city.
It cost the city about $35,000 to take over more than 20 of Lozensky's properties, Hanson said.
Cobb, meanwhile, complains that he still has not received a deed to the property. He says the seller wants to reimburse him, but "I don't want the check. We want our church."
Cobb said Lozensky backed out of their deal because of pressure from Antler residents, a claim Hanson denied.
However, the mayor did admit that "people were kind of upset" about Lozensky, who recently moved away from Antler. Lozensky declined to comment for this story.
Hanson acknowledged that the city bought the property to keep out Cobb, who lives in nearby Sherwood. "We don't want the guy in town," Hanson said. "I mean, who does?"
Cobb said he and others in his church are "not trying to rule over other people at all."
But he indicated that his intent is to bring in enough people to outnumber the town's voting population, which he estimated to be 20 people.
Hanson said Cobb targets small towns for that reason. "It's not about democracy," Hanson said. "It's not about the American way."
Cobb said his community, if realized, would not exclude nonwhites.
So would he welcome black people?
"'Welcome' is a strong word," he said. "We understand that they have a legal right."
Residents of Leith recently attended an Antler town hall meeting to explain what happened in Leith, which Cobb tried to take over in 2013. He gained national attention for the failed effort.
Hanson says the real driving force for Cobb is just that--media attention.
"That's the bottom line with Craig Cobb. ... If I was you, I'd just ignore the guy."
What’s the opposite of supremacy?
Whatever it is, there seem to be a lot of folks bent on the thesis of complaining they are forced into it.
The answer as always is God. Invest yourself in God and you find all those worldly limitations vanishing away.
Hey, the press finally found one nutjob White Supremacist as a Useful Idiot to “prove” that Trump and a large chunk of conservative voters really only care about white racial supremacy.
Some are, some aren’t. If you can’t understand a gross generalization then you really are nit picking against a larger valid point.
They never ever use a different manual. Always the same crap.
I think that Trump will start to find himself with “redneck” support, where “redneck” is an attitude not a skin color. The redneck is glad to work hard.
If this guy wants to start a “whites only enclave” then he is going to have to locate it entirely on PRIVATE property.
The Constitutions of the United States, and whatever State he wishes to locate, rightfully prevent him from doing so with any taxpayer-funded property.
But in the meantime, the media Cassandras will make as much hay out of this ridiculously radioactive topic.
Well then it won't be a "whites only enclave".
Well said.
I just don’t see what you say as generally being true about Asians, for example. If anything, aren’t Asians discriminated against by affirmative action and quotas more than any other group?
Considering this was out more than a week ago, and the national media hasn’t picked it up, I guess not. If the media wanted to clobber Trump, they could have made this a huge story last week.
I see nit pickiness which looks like it is aimed at evading the point of noticing the ridiculous position of groups who DO pity-party. They’re feeding into the superiorites.
I don’t think this has anything to do with Trump, but if he really wants to fight P.C. and the media, supporting this guy would be a huge way to do it, right?
Maybe its also where Hillary is stashing her backup email server.
I have been to lots of small towns in the upper Midwest that if not pure white, are 99.44% pure white just like ivory soap. That is a White guy may have had a great great great great great great grandfather who was a Native American. Kind of like high cheekbones Warren.
There’s aggressive common sense and then there is pimping nutcases.
Trump could well stand to embrace the “general redneck” who has little time to strut around feeling racially superior, he’s too busy working hard.
What makes you think my treasure is not in Heaven already? Do you think you are the only one who trusts in God?
I don’t know if it’s true, but some said this is the white supremacist who tested to have African ancestry.
(1) What makes you think this is not rhetorical for larger audiences... why do you take this as so PERSONALLY affronted?
(2) It’s possible to be saved and yet squander the opportunities generated thereby daily.
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