The article you link to has other, more likely, explanations for "cakewalk".

Jul 4, 2021

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… & destroy” squads across the land’s language, then I think we liberals must also police ourselves. I recently learned that the term a “cakewalk,” for instance, is racist. Meaning something very easy in today’s vernacular, it finds it’s origins in the 19th century slave …

Language Has Its Own Baggage

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The article you link to has other, more likely, explanations for "cakewalk". Those other explanations are the ones I'm familiar with.

A better example is "rule of thumb" as a very misogynistic aphorism.

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