“When I’m going on a first date, I consciously put on clothes that make me appear to be a Don Lemon-type instead of a 50 Cent-type - even though I have both types of clothing,” he said.įor Black people and other minority groups, code-switching is a way of existing within multiple worlds at once by repressing their authentic selves while playing up behavior seen as acceptable by a majority. Lamour, who said he mostly dates white men, later realized he code-switches in other ways when meeting someone who isn’t Black for the first time.
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“I hadn’t even noticed I did it, but then he did an impression of it and it all came full circle,” he said, and added: “It’s kind of like a job interview where you sort of make yourself more corporate-sounding in order to seem more standard so that a second date can happen.” Lamour said his then-boyfriend, a white man, asked why his voice changed when he spoke to the man. When he rolled his car’s window back up, Mr. “We were driving to Boston and got a little lost, so I asked a Black person on the corner for directions,” said Mr. Joseph Lamour, 38, a journalist and illustrator who lives in Washington, said it wasn’t until a white boyfriend confronted him about his change in vernacular that he realized he altered his speech. Barnwell and other Black people say code-switching is common when they date interracially because first impressions determine if a second date is in the cards. The alteration of hairstyles, clothes, and interests in order to gain social acceptance and limit the risk of falling victim to bias is a form of code-switching, a term that refers to the common practice of adapting or altering speech, dialect, look or behavior depending on the social setting. “I also wore my Birkenstocks to my first date with Ben, which I’d never wear on a first date with a nonwhite man,” Ms. She won’t play soul music, wears clothes that don’t expose her curves and avoids using African American Vernacular English, commonly known as Ebonics, in conversations. Barnwell said she has toned down when getting to know someone who is not Black. Podnar, who said he likes all of the different ways Ms. He continued to drag Madonna for not acting her age and used his platform to remind fans about just how old she really is.“I know a lot of people in her life have criticized her tight coils, so it’s especially been nice getting to see her feel that attraction from me no matter how she wears her hair,” added Mr. In true fashion, 50 Cent is speaking his views very loudly and making sure the entire world knows that he's just not 'feeling this'. She shot out, if she don't get her old a** up, LMAO" and he proceeded to add a variety of emojis to further drive his point home.Īccording to 50 Cent, Madonna's prime time has come and gone, and he has no interest in seeing a 63-year-old woman acting, dressing, or posing in this way. He selected one particular image of Madonna lying face down on the floor, with half her body shoved under her bed, and the other half exposed, and he trolled her online by writing "yo this is the funniest S**t, LOL that's Madonna under the bed trying to do Like A Virgin at 63.
He's truly unimpressed by her public display of nudity and suggestive photography, and he especially doesn't support the fact that she's presenting herself in this manner at the age of 63. A post shared by 50 Cent Cent has trolled Madonna in the past but this time, he really tore a strip out of the music icon.