I am so sick damn of Planking Trend!!!!!!!

Every time I go online some fool would be posting pictures of them "Planking".   Yes, the fool in this photo is rapper Flava Flav. My point black people do not need jump on every damn bandwagon. Here the historic term about "Planking" and why this act is very offensive.  Excert from the author Camillo Smith from the website The Grio:
Another mention of the word, describes the "bed" for slaves who were chained onto ships. From the book, Upon these Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present:

Some ships had tiny bunks, really nothing more than shelves, on which slaves could recline; in others, the slaves lay side by side on the planking, rolling with the ship, bodies virtually touching, for weeks on end.

One can see how photos of someone laying across a basketball hoop, or fence, or inside of a club between two women is funny, or across a mailbox is humorous. And although there's no direct evidence I could find that "planking" was a specific term that came out of slavery. The term "slave plank" also brings up mention of political platforms or "planks" that were used during political conventions in the 19th Century. Frederick Douglass would argued the "anti-slavery plank".
http://www.thegrio.com/news/is-planking-harmless-fun-or-fundamentally-offensive.php?page=2


Another interesting post I recently read on a another website: The person who wrote this post Charlotte of
threegirlsandamic.com.  Charlotte did a wonderful post about the Planking. If you have any time please stop by  to read and support her website.







Plank collar;
A plank collar is used on slave benches. It is a heavy wooden plank with five semicircular openings, when the plank is lifted it provides holding collars for five slaves. The plank is then chained down. The primary holding arrangement for women on the benches, however, is not chains. Each place on the bench is fitted with ankle and wrist stocks, and for each bench there is a plank collar, a plank which opens horizontally, each half of which contains five matching, semicircular openings, which, when it is set on pinions, closed, and chained in place, provides five sturdy, wooden enclosures for the throats of women. The plank is thick and thus the girls’s chins are held high. The plank is further reinforced between each girl with a narrowly curved iron band, the open ends of which are pierced; this is slid tight in its slots, in its metal retainers, about the boards, and secured in place with a four-inch metal pin, which may or may not be locked in place.
Savages of Gor pg 60