WE NEED A TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF FORBES UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE: Forbes removes column that asks if Trump surviving shooting will appeal to black voters.

A controversial Forbes column with a headline that questioned if former President Donald Trump surviving Saturday’s assassination attempt would draw more black voters was yanked from its website amid social media backlash.

The piece, “Will Surviving Gunfire Be Donald Trump’s Next Appeal To Black Voters,” by scholar and self-described DEI expert Shaun Harper was posted Sunday morning and quickly called out by critics on X.

The column described how black Americans face “inexcusably” high levels of gun violence, including in many urban centers, which Harper wrote Trump could address through legislation and financial investments in urban black communities.

The author mentioned Trump attempted to sway black voters after he was indicted on various criminal charges and his mugshot was taken in one of his cases last year.

“Hopefully, being shot doesn’t become a similarly problematic strategy to link Trump with an experience that far too many (not all) Black people have,” part of the column reads.

“Instead, using his powerful platform to advocate fixing this through public policy and significant financial investments into urban Black communities is the opportunity that awaits Trump once he recovers from the tragedy that occurred at his rally.”

But social media users were incensed by the column and its headline.

There’s a photo of Harper underneath this New York Post column wearing a “Joe & Kamala 2020” T-shirt, not surprisingly. The Daily Mail adds that he “claimed that the injured ex-president’s defiant raised fist might resonate with George Floyd protesters.”

Sometimes a power fist raised the moment after surviving an assassination attempt is merely a power fist raised the moment after surviving an assassination attempt.

Here’s a screenshot of the column’s headline and first two paragraphs from the Wayback Machine: