And maybe, hopefully, he will. Maybe he’ll turn out like the former neo-Nazi who found out that he was actually Jewish and joined the Jewish community and became an upstanding and productive member. Maybe.
But I doubt it. Cobb is one of the worst of racists and bigots out there, both in statements and in actions–he has said that “racism is my religion” and isn’t joking–the cult that he’s a member of, the Creativity Movement, is pretty much a collection of vicious white supremacists.
This is a man who has built up his entire ego and self worth around his skin color, and denies everyone else around him their humanity if they do no share that color with him, or his beliefs or religion (disclaimer: I’m a Jew myself, so I’d be the next target for him and his buddies after they finished with the blacks, so I’m hardly unbiased). So I’ll be honest: I’m enjoying a bit of schadenfreude at the sight of a man who hates me, hates nearly everyone I know, just because we’re not like him, goes around trumpeting his own “superiority” for what he (thought he) was, not who he was as a decent person, and has now had the rug yanked out from under him in a wonderfully public manner.
If he works to honestly improve himself, and makes an effort to repair the damage he’s done with all of his years of hate, then I will be there to offer him a hand of fellowship. But he’s going to have to work long and hard before most people would piss on him if he were on fire. And, looking at his history, I doubt that he has that capacity to reinvent himself in such a fashion.
