"call a spade a spade" furor

[Bruce Dykes]

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Subject: Re: "call a spade a spade" furor


> This would be laughable if it weren't so sad. It strikes me that the
> sensitivity to "spade" is less understandable than that to "niggardly",
since
> I suspect that most younger people, at least, don't connect the word
"spade"
> with African-Americans. I perceive it as "old slang," something out of the
> rat pack days, half a century ago. Am I right?

I'm 33, and only ever heard it used by Archie Bunker...

bkd