Rapper Xzibit: 'Planking Is Racist, Not Funny'

By Kiki Von Glinow Posted Jul 8th 2011 02:30PM

After 'planking' seemed to have swept over Hollywood faster than you can say 'Kabbalah,' there's one lonely adversary who's standing up against those that are laying down. Rapper Xzibit took to Twitter to express his extreme disapproval of the trend.

"Planking is THE dumbest sh-t ever," Xzibit tweeted (via TMZ). "#Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade, its not funny. Educate."

From Rosario Dawson and Ellen Page to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, celebrities have been laying down straight and narrow left and right.

"Don't get it twisted," he continued. "I care less where your dumb asses lay face down and take pictures of the shit, I'm just telling you where it came from."

Although the position in which slaves were transported during the slave trade was not technically referred to as 'planking' the fashion in which they were positioned on wood plank beds was not unlike the stiff, face down, palm to side style.

The celebrity world is famous for their apt political correctness but we're not so sure they're going to give up their beloved light as a feather, stiff as a board ways.

Tags: xzibit

Comments

(225)

Friday 08 July

By stopalready

Highest Rank Vote down Vote up Report this

Whites are discriminated against. We are not allowed to have all white anything, speak our minds agains blacks or we are racist, say the N word, or have opinion on Obama.. We get blamed cause the children dont go to school, the prisons have more blacks than whites, the list goes on. Its time it all stopped before the hatred starts up again, even though blacks seem to think all white pople are racist, To that I say I am NOT and most people i know are not, but are tired of the reverse discrimination that has happened, and no matter how much you get, its never enough and anything we say is RACIST! time to move on. One mans dream is now a nightmare.

Saturday 09 July

By Angryman

Lowest Rank Vote down Vote up Report this

The fact that you would want an ALL WHITE ANYTHING speaks volumes! You wouldn't know discrimination if it bit you in the arse!!

Sunday 10 July

By STAN ZALEN

High Rank Vote down Vote up Report this

A COON IS A COON!!!! GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY(AFRICA AND ENJOY YOU JIG-A-BOO)

By Peregrine John

It's almost like he wants to be offended so much that he's inventing new offenses. Like he's rewarded for it in some way.

...Oh. Well, there you have it.

By lilbori06

Typical thing to say Xzibit. WTF? Why is always the race card?! it has nothing to do with race u idiot.

By jackie

What a stupid remark..trying to tell people how to lie down? Whaaat? Who is He?

By Kitty

Vote down Vote up Report this

He didn't say it was racist. Reread his words. The person who wrote the article and title used the racist card. X just said where its origins were from. Too bad many for you are too ignorant and bigoted to actually read what he said and not just rely on the title of the blog article. The rhetoric many or you are spewing is ridiculous.

Wednesday 13 July

By Jesse

Kitty? Any chance that would be a "black" kitty? That's what I figured!

By white devil

I don't even feel right eating a sandwich on white bread anymore

YOU SPEAR CHUCKING JUNGLE BUNNIES ARE NOTHING BUT WELFARE MOOCHING NON AMERICANS THAT SUCK US TAXPAYERS DRY. GET A JOB AND DON"T STEAL EVERYTHING IN SIGHT YOU JIG-A-BOO"S

By Sam

If I took a picture of me jumping out a building that looks like the twin towers while on fire and laughing like it was hilarious would you call that insensitive.

By whitechicuva

No, I would call that DUMB!

By Disgusted

I am so disgusted with things anymore. Seriously slavery was abolished in 1865. My great-grandmother was full blooded Cherokee Indian, Grandmother was 1/2, My Sister Married a Full Blooded Cherokee Indian. And it is true they Indians were treated worse than blacks,some of them were slaves also, others were given infected blankets, to kill them off, The Washington Redskins NAME they Refuse to Change do not care the Term Redskin was used when the bloody skins (red-skins) of Native people were treated as "prizes," in which they would be scalped after battle and their skins bought and sold in local towns. The Indians even were friends to the blacks and were stabbed in the back with that relationship as well. The Jewish were also targeted by the Germans, even as far back as Kane and Abel - People did not get along......MOVE ON ALREADY- We are all decendants of Wronged people AND Wronged Races! Let us TRY and Find a way to move PAST this History and Find Away to GET ALONG SOMEHOW...

By af82069

And you made plenty of money off of a show partly named after someone who earns money by soliciting hookers. No further need to xzibit your ignorance, just get a job.

Low Ranked Vote down Vote up Report this

First off, HE HAS A JOB! Secondly, he has every right to voice his opinion as ANYBODY else! Thirdly, HE DIDN'T SAY Planking was Racist, the author of the Article did! So you need to address your issue with KiKi Von Glinow!

By Nathan

Weren't they forced to row the boats, too? I guess this means I can't go canoeing anymore. :(

By kevin

What a retard. Ooops, not supposed to say that.

By DUDE

I GUESS I'M OLD, CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT "PLANKING" IS?

By Ray

In no way is this racist. Kids did not wake up one morning and say...."hey, I think I'll make fun of the slaves and Plank." Self centered ego this man has. Who made him president of Slave History? I do think planking is stupid, but most of what is trendy today, has nothing to do with disrespecting slavery.

By andy merritt

WHITES BOUGHT BLACKS FROM BLACKS.GO AFTER THE DEALERS NOT THE BUYERS.

Page 5 of 12