A Maryland college professor has claimed black people were ‘tantalized’ by the prospect of Trump’s ‘evil’ being eradicated in Saturday’s near-fatal shooting. 

Morgan State University Professor Dr Stacey Patton has penned a controversial piece comparing the penultimate president to Hitler while speculating that the future would be brighter if he had died during the Pennsylvania assassination attempt.  

Dr Patton aired her views in a Newsone article titled ‘Is He Dead?’ Why Black People Are Not Grieving The Failed Assassination Of Donald Trump on Monday. 

‘Black people are not reveling in violence. We are wishing for the death of evil. We are longing for the prevention of evil,’ Patton wrote. 

‘For a moment on Saturday, we held our collective breath. We were suspended in uncertainty, caught between desperation and hope, asking: What if?

‘Is it immoral for us to be tantalized by the siren songs of alternate histories where the world isn’t scarred by hatred, totalitarianism, genocide, lynching, segregation and world war?’

The comments came after she speculated how different history would have been if those who wanted to violently overthrow Adolf Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 or Operation Valkyrie in 1944 had succeeded. 

‘Hitler and the Nazis were met by a police cordon,’ Patton wrote of the first event. ‘A shot rang out. There was a short moment of silence before a volley of bullets sparked a shootout between the conspirators and the police.

‘One of Hitler’s armed bodyguards leapt in front of him and was gravely wounded. 

‘Another was shot in the leg as he yanked Hitler to the ground so hard that his shoulder was dislocated. 

‘When the echoes faded and the smoke cleared, 16 Nazis and four police officers lay dead on the cobblestone streets. 

‘Hitler escaped but was later arrested, found guilty of high treason, and sentenced to five years in prison, where he dictated his radical treatise Mein Kampf to fellow inmates. 

‘After serving only nine months, he was released and transformed into a symbol of nationalist resistance.’

Dr Patton aired her views in a Newsone article titled ‘Is He Dead?’ Why Black People Are Not Grieving The Failed Assassination Of Donald Trump 

Patton also tweeted a photograph of Trump raising his fist beneath the US flag seconds after he was shot in the ear, while comparing it to American military forces raising the flag at Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima in 1945

With dismay, Patton pointed out that the assassination attempt on Trump has similarly bolstered his popularity.

‘Why are so many white people who dislike Trump suddenly becoming so patriotic and MAGA right now? That’s a rhetorical question,’ she wrote. 

Patton says that anyone supporting Trump as a result of the assassination attempt ‘fails to acknowledge that Trump is a violent convicted criminal who incited an insurrection and he’s a rapist facing more criminal indictments’.

‘He has implemented policies that have harmed Black and Brown communities,’ she added. 

Patton listed Trump’s litany of ‘evils’ against black US citizens, from telling ‘American congresswomen of color to “go back” to their countries’ to unleashing ‘vitriol against NFL players for kneeling in protest’ against police killings of black people. 

She also tweeted a photograph of Trump raising his fist beneath the US flag seconds after he was shot in the ear, while comparing it to American forces raising the flag at Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima in 1945. 

The 1945 photograph marked the end of a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy captured the island of Iow Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army.