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The star of this documentary is a town called Leith. It is in North Dakota. It has 24 residents. They are all working-class. One of them is black, and he is married to a white woman. The economic background to all of this is the twilight of the shale oil boom. Though it’s not mentioned in the documentary, the reason for the coming decline is the collapse of crude oil on the world market. And the reason for the collapse is Saudi Arabia is oversupplying the market. And the reason they are doing this is to bring shale oil production to an end.

One day, a strange man visits Leith. The man turns out to be a world-famous white supremacist, Craig Cobb. He has a plan. He wants to transform Leith into a white paradise…

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...