“Welcome to Leith” – if you’re white [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Welcome to Leith,” the outstanding new documentary directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, tells the compelling and horrifying story of the attempted take-over of a dying town by one of the country’s most notorious white supremacists, Craig Cobb. That he failed is a tribute to the courage and ingenuity of its last remaining residents. The town of Leith, North Dakota, founded in 1910, was the tiny hub that joined two local North Dakota rail lines. The railroad was abandoned in 1984 and the town began to shrivel up because no highways came anywhere close, eliminating viable transport of any significant amount of agriculture from the small farms dotting the countryside and eliminating the possibility of any industry moving in. The population soon dwindled to 24 and those who worked had to find employment elsewhere. Still, those who remained were devoted to their small community. Craig Cobb, an outsider, arrived one day and began to buy up abandoned property, a source of income that most of the residents initially welcomed. But then news arrived from a disturbing source. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), this country’s leading resource in the fight against…
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