"Y'all are stupid for participating in this because it came from slavery. That's how slave masters used to store slaves on the slave ships..."The operative words here are USED TO. When was the last time you've been stacked on a slave ship?
Exactly.
It's nice that you're educated, knowing your history and all, but planking is just a dumb game meant for entertainment. Being angry about it probably won't change it anytime soon. If you don't believe me, let's look at the origins of some other things we haven't stopped doing yet:
SAGGING
Most of us know that sagging was derived from prisons, where belts are prohibited. And I personally haven't heard anyone say "I used to sag, but I stopped when I found out where it came from." Hip hop has made it cool, and those who are highly impressionable are sure to follow suit. People who have never even BEEN to prison before are steadily testing the limits with sagging by wearing them around their thighs, knees, and ankles. The only thing that can ALMOST stop this: da law.
Here's an even better example:
HOLIDAY PARTYING
The first thing people wanna do on a holiday is get full and "wasted", which usually leads to fighting and such.
"You know where that came from, right?"
According to Frederick Douglass in his life narrative, slaveholders generally encouraged slaves to get drunk and fight on holidays as a way to keep them enslaved. It was a way to put in their minds "If we can live this good as slaves, we don't really need to be free."
And no one's upset about this?? Such selective judgment!
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