PLANKING: A fun new trend or a racist old practice?
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JadaRoss
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The World has caught onto the new planking trend as millions are now uploading images of themselves laying flat on their stomachs in stiff positions at awkward and creative locations
dwight howard:Planking
Flavor Flav:Planking
Joe Budden:Planking
Rosario Dawson
But what does planking really mean and where did it originate from?
Many are to believe the word “planking” was derived from a slavery era term. It allegedly described the prostrate position slaves had to take when traveling over the Atlantic.
From the Wikipedia page on “slave ship”:Often the ships, also known as Guineamen, transported hundreds of slaves, who were chained tightly to plank beds. For example, the slave ship Henrietta Marie carried about 200 slaves on the long Middle Passage. They were confined to cargo holds with each slave chained with little room to move.
Slaves were forced to lay face down with their arms by their side and their wrist chained to their waist. Some were even stacked on top of each other with no room to move. Keep in mind there were not any restrooms and they were exposed to ? fluids, etc. Not many of the slaves survived, many dying from dehydration and disease.
So what do you make of this new #planking trend? Is it fun or are we revisiting a dark time in our past?
dwight howard:Planking
Flavor Flav:Planking
Joe Budden:Planking
Rosario Dawson
But what does planking really mean and where did it originate from?
Many are to believe the word “planking” was derived from a slavery era term. It allegedly described the prostrate position slaves had to take when traveling over the Atlantic.
From the Wikipedia page on “slave ship”:Often the ships, also known as Guineamen, transported hundreds of slaves, who were chained tightly to plank beds. For example, the slave ship Henrietta Marie carried about 200 slaves on the long Middle Passage. They were confined to cargo holds with each slave chained with little room to move.
Slaves were forced to lay face down with their arms by their side and their wrist chained to their waist. Some were even stacked on top of each other with no room to move. Keep in mind there were not any restrooms and they were exposed to ? fluids, etc. Not many of the slaves survived, many dying from dehydration and disease.
So what do you make of this new #planking trend? Is it fun or are we revisiting a dark time in our past?
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All those pictures depict them lying face up, and there is no mention of them lying face down in the wiki article.
I also have not seen any historical mention of the stacking of slaves or their holding arrangements aboard a ship being referred to as planking.
Unless you can show some information deeper than "planks are the pieces of wood on a ship. slaves rode on wooden ships," I just don't see this as consignable. -
WHy the ? are people doing this? Is this ? serious?!
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WHy the ? are people doing this? Is this ? serious?!
It started in Australia years ago as a competition between people to see who could manage to "plank" in the most difficult/best locations, but mentioning that in the opening post would take away form the "racist" nature of it all... -
the sad part is you thought you did a good job on this. You even broke out he bamboozled black face montage. that is supposed to be saved for the finest of coonery. honestly you reaching bruh
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lordhonka2 wrote: »the sad part is you thought you did a good job on this. You even broke out he bamboozled black face montage. that is supposed to be saved for the finest of coonery. honestly you reaching bruh
i love reaching.sometimes it takes reaching to get folks attention -
? biting off of what white people did years ago... ? late... and its corny too.
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PLANKING:
Weird? VERY
Racist? NO
Reaching? VERY MUCH SO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C45g3YP7JOk
