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July 8, 2011 11:15 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Ui9TQ7pNYCo/rapper-claims-planki.html
Rapper claims planking is racist
Gawker's Adrian Chen covers the new 'controversy' over planking, the cartoon-mimicking "lying-down game" out of Britain and Australia: rapper Xzibit insists that it is mocking slaves who were transported from Africa to America in superficially similar fashion. Adds Chen: "If smearing planking as racist is what finally makes it stop, we're not going to complain."...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Ui9TQ7pNYCo/rapper-claims-planki.html
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