Welcome to Leith

 

Imagine you where living your life in a quite town and one day you got a new neighbor, you welcome him in to your town. You assume because of his quite nature that he is simply there to live out a simple life. Then he begins to try and change the town to a place where white supremacist can live and have a place to run all of the white supremacy groups. This is who a small town in North Dakota had to live because of a man named Paul Craig Cobb. The small town that went by the of Leith had 24 residents and was a grand total three square miles. The movie Welcome to Leith goes thought the horror in which the people of Leith had to endure.

Today I will be comparing those events to the murder of Emmett Till. Emmett Till was a young teenager when he was murdered, he was on a trip down to Money, Mississippi. As a young boy who grow up in Illinois,Chicago he didn’t understand the racism in Money. After whistling at a white women he was brutally murdered. Where this story get even more appalling is with the trail after his death the all white jury cleared his murders of all charges.

The place in which these story overlap heavy is in how the individual brought the towns common belief in check and the way in which they deal with the issue. The extreme situation forced the towns to create a common view on the issue and a plan of action

The question that emerged for me was if the treatment towards Craig Cobb was right? If we where to look past his blatenly racist ideology his goal was not to create a place where they can remove the African American race. Instead he wanted a place where he felt comfortable and that the Caucasian culture could thrive.

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