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| CHRIS BROWN 'PLANKING' |
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Planking has taken the pop culture by storm as the latest new craze and its all thanks to some of today's top celebrities like Justin Bieber, Diggy Simmons, Chris Brown and others who've posted pictures of themselves online planking in unusual places. Credit for the whole planking thing has been credited to Australian teenagers. But for those who look deeper on the history and the true birth of planking it goes back to the slave trade days where slave owners packed ships with slaves by chaining them to wooden planks sometimes in a face down position stacked high to fit as many as possible. Rapper/Actor Xhibit doesn't think it's funny due to these reasons and thinks that people should know the history of something before they hop on the bandwagon. "Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade, it's not funny. Educate yourselves," he later tweeted, before continuing: "Don't get it twisted. 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."[NME]
A number of bloggers and online commentators have moved to back the former Pimp My Ride host's slave trade claims, citing research which apparently shows that slaves were forced to adopt the pose when they were chained to 'plank' beds.
