Every year in my elementary school, we would have annual cake walks. I absolutely loved them and thought they were an absolutely brilliant way to fundraise money. I mean how much better could it get? Let me set the scene: a huge table is placed in the middle of a room and completely filling up the perimeter of that table is cake. That’s right, I said CAKE. Every shape, size, color and flavor of cake is on that table, with a number sitting next to it, waiting for someone to claim it! Music playing in the background allowed for any and everyone to dance, specifically around the table and similarly to a game of musical chairs, once that music stopped, you stopped right in front of one of those prized cakes and the bidding begins. Now, this all sounds like innocent fun to take home a delicious homemade treat and send some young girls to a camping trip with their Girl Scout Troop, but the true and often unknown history of cake walks is a bit more dark than that.