Cakewalking

cake·walk (kkwôk)
n.
1. Something easily accomplished: Winning the race was a cakewalk for her.
2. A 19th-century public entertainment among African Americans in which walkers performing the most accomplished or amusing steps won cakes as prizes.
3.
a. A strutting dance, often performed in minstrel shows.
b. The music for this dance.
intr.v. cake·walked, cake·walk·ing, cake·walks
To perform a strutting dance.

Reading an essay by Essex Hemphill and became interested in what cakewalking is. Here is a clip I found from the turn of the 20th century of real cakewalkers. Pretty interesting stuff. A little haunting.