White supremacist Cobb refuses interview with black co-anchor of ABC’s “Nightline” (ND)
By Adrian Glass-Moore on Sep 21, 2015 at 10:12 a.m.
ANTLER, N.D. - Craig Cobb, a white supremacist who wants to build a racist enclave in this small north central North Dakota town, says he refused an interview with a co-anchor of ABC’s “Nightline” earlier this month because of the co-anchor’s race.
The co-host, Byron Pitts, who is black, flew to North Dakota to meet with Cobb but Cobb declined to meet him, saying the situation felt like an “ambush.”
Cobb said he had earlier talked with an ABC producer about the possibility of an interview, and had told her he would not do an interview with a black journalist.
“I said at one point … I don’t want to do it with a black interviewer,” said Cobb, a member of a fringe religion called Creativity Movement, which teaches the superiority of whites ...
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