The spade represents a card from the deck of playing cards that was originally made more intricate and darker than any other cards. So in England they had a colorist saying when referring to people of color "blacker than the Ace of Spades"! That's how the term became a racist term in America because the colonizers brought that term over on the Mayflower!
Why they use it as a symbol for BNWO must be all the backs getting blown out with that symbol on their bodies or clothing!
For almost half a millennium, the phrase "call a spade a spade" has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the expression began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.
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