Colin Flaherty: White Area = HELL NO - Black Area = That's a Beautiful Display of Culture

White Area = HELL NO - Black Area = That's a Beautiful Display of Culture - 2018 Colin Flaherty reviews and gives commentary on news with headlines "North Dakota mayor: We must scrap city council to thwart white supremacist takeover" and "WHITE SUPREMACIST TAKEOVER: NORTH DAKOTA TOWN MAY ABOLISH COUNCIL TO STOP THREAT" and "Akwaaba Philadelphia: The bed-and-breakfast that speaks to black people opens in West Philadelphia

Ryan Schock fears the past is about to rear its ugly head in his town of tiny Leith in south-central North Dakota, and as mayor of the 18 or so people who live there, he wants none of it.

Five years ago Leith made national headlines in The New York Times, USA Today and elsewhere when a man named Craig Cobb began buying up lots around town and inviting fellow white supremacists to move in.

His plan - to turn Leith into a white enclave.

In this Aug. 26, 2013, photo Craig Cobb stands in an empty lot he owns on Main Street in Leith, N.D., where he envisions a park _ perhaps with a swimming pool _ dedicated to the late neo-Nazi and white supremacist activist William L. Pierce. Cobb, 61, a self-described white supremacist, has purchased about a dozen lots in Leith and over the past year he has invited fellow white supremacists to move there and help him to transform the town of 16 people into a white enclave.

The mayor of a small town in North Dakota is moving to scrap its government over fears that white supremacists are attempting to take it over, one seat at a time.

Ryan Schock, mayor of Leith in south-central North Dakota, has gathered over 12 signatures for a petition that seeks to transfer the town’s governance over to Grant County, reported The Kansas City Star. Approximately 16 people are living in Leith.

Five years ago, Paul Craig Cobb, a prominent white nationalist and white separatist, moved to the small town and began buying houses and land with the intention of creating a white supremacist district, reported The New York Times. Schock tried to stop these attempts in 2013 but was unsuccessful.

Earlier this month, Cobb brought a few white supremacists into town for the city’s elections and managed to win seats on the council with write-in votes, reported The Bismarck Tribune.

“We have to dissolve the town because that idiot [Cobb] showed up," Schock said. “He wanted control of it, and now he can’t have it.”

Schock told KFYR-TV that abolishing the council will not mark the end of Leith. "Leith is always going to be here, the Leith signs are always going to be there,” he said. “It's just not going to have a council and a mayor anymore if this resolution goes through.”