Why, Lord? Why must they continue to try it?  We get one month, 28 days to celebrate, marinate and revel in our blackness. It’s not even two full weeks into Black History Month and the President, Vice President, even comedian George Lopez have already acted an entire fool. The latest culprit to jump on the 'eff y'all's celebration' bandwagon is none other than Maxwell.

The R&B/neo-Soul crooner, who has made an entire career off the adoration of black women, decided to take to Twitter last night to suggest  that Black History Month should be a celebration of everyone’s culture, not just African-Americans.

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To make sure ya’ll were crystal clear on his point, he followed up by creating this innovative hashtag, “#blackblueredwhitebiegehistory.” 

Wayment….let’s backtrack for a second. Maxwell’s initial tweet featured a photo of Lena Horne with a quote that said, “…not all of us look a typical black.” Then, in a confusing, attempted "clap-back," he tweeted a reference to Barack Obama’s mixed-race heritage in defense of his “All History Month” argument. Hold up, y'all, does he seriously think that Black History Month only recognizes the historic contributions of dark skinned people? Wait, does Maxwell  not know that light-skinned and mixed race black people are black too! 

The 43-year-old singer eventually deleted the tweets but not before black Twitter left his feed in shambles.

There was disappointment.

Confusion.

And even some empathy.

Seriously though Maxwell, do you even know your fan base?

Let this be a cautionary warning to other black celebs who may be contemplating jumping on the Kanye/Stacey/Harvey/Maxwell bandwagon,

Don’t you ever, in your black life, try it again! -Signed, #BlackTwitter

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