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The phrase "Cake Walk”, like many other racist terms, is ubiquitous in American English. Cake Walks were originally done as entertainment for slave-owning whites. In a Cake Walk, the slave would be dressed in the master’s clothes and made to parade around as if they were members of high white society. The slaves who did the best impression of their masters, won the cake.
It was entertainment and a contest performed under duress and aided only in further humiliating people in bondage. Other words and phrases to reconsider: Master Bedroom, Peanut Gallery, Grandfathered In/out, Lynch Mob, blackball, sold down the river, Cup of Joe.
It was entertainment and a contest performed under duress and aided only in further humiliating people in bondage. Other words and phrases to reconsider: Master Bedroom, Peanut Gallery, Grandfathered In/out, Lynch Mob, blackball, sold down the river, Cup of Joe.
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