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[Just-a-Mom]

I've used that figure of speech my entire life and I've never heard that it was racist. I just skimmed the Wikipedia for it.....I'm going to keep saying it. I'm over it all.

Well this is good to know! I really felt bad when the thread happened, because I genuinely had never heard that. I Googled it that day, and still felt like it was not a racist saying, but felt it was best to just let it go.

Vaguely recall that thread. I do believe JAM was crucified for it. Wish I could recall the thread.

Thanks.

Now. Where were all you people when I was getting crucified? Just left me there... alone... Undefended.

 

[SharkDad]

@Just-a-Mom I can't say that I would ever consider you undefended

 

[Bling it On]

OMG I love you! The oversensitivity of people just is driving me nuts.
I've used the term and, quite literally, imagine a spade. Like, hey, this is a spade in my hand. It's not a shovel. It's not a rake. It's a spade! Call it that!

I always thought it meant spade as in a garden tool. My grandfather actually used to say "a spade is a spade and a hoe is a hoe all day long".

 

[ErinS]

The other day I went to say "One monkey don't stop no show"...... because my mom and grandmother have ALWAYS said it.

Then I was like "hold up....is that racist?"

Then I googled it. Decided "no" and proceeded to say it.

I hate that this is what everything has come to.

 

[kristenthegreat]

I always thought it meant spade as in a garden tool. My grandfather actually used to say "a spade is a spade and a hoe is a hoe all day long".

It's like that NPR article about how the song that some Ice Cream Trucks play (Which I know to be Turkey in the Straw) COULD be racist because although it's more commonly known that way, it was also developed into a minstrel song for a while. I'm like DON'T YOU MESS WITH TURKEY IN THE STRAW YOU JERKS.

Also known as 'Do Your Ears Hang Low?' from Barney.

 

[njallday]

It's like that NPR article about how the song that some Ice Cream Trucks play (Which I know to be Turkey in the Straw) COULD be racist because although it's more commonly known that way, it was also developed into a minstrel song for a while. I'm like DON'T YOU MESS WITH TURKEY IN THE STRAW YOU JERKS.

Also known as 'Do Your Ears Hang Low?' from Barney.

wait... 'Do Your Ears Hang Low?' isn't about a hound dog? because i was always told we were asking a basset hound if his ears hung low....

 

[kristenthegreat]

wait... 'Do Your Ears Hang Low?' isn't about a hound dog? because i was always told we were asking a basset hound if his ears hung low....

It is. Sorry, I should have said the TUNE was stolen, and the words re-made into a minstrel song. Which apparently featured watermelons.

My question to that is: who DOESN'T love watermelon? It's delicious.

 

[ErinS]

It is. Sorry, I should have said the TUNE was stolen, and the words re-made into a minstrel song. Which apparently featured watermelons.

My question to that is: who DOESN'T love watermelon? It's delicious.

My coworker hates it.

She likes the smell and hates the taste.

Shes strange.

 

[quitthedrama]

oh the irony!

Carry on

 

[BuegeSmalls]

My question to that is: who DOESN'T love watermelon? It's delicious.

Me. If I eat it (which isn't often) I only like it cut into the big triangle pieces. Lol. Weird, I know.

 

[SharkDad]

Me. If I eat it (which isn't often) I only like it cut into the big triangle pieces. Lol. Weird, I know.

Are you racist against squares and rectangles?

 

[BuegeSmalls]

Are you racist against squares and rectangles?

Uh oh, maybe I am and I've never realized...but technically both can be made up with triangles so, no?

 

[SharkDad]

Instead of insisting on triangles you should be more accepting and try a square or rectangle. Visualize the two triangles, it can help you grow.

 

[Hodiestoe]

I'm sorry I missed the whole spade racist conversation, @Just-a-Mom I would have been there as I really do not see it as a racist comment. In fact it was someone high up in the Rwandan government who said to me: "let's call a spade a spade and not a big spoon" and I've used it ever since. I can't find anything out on my friend google, which convinces me categorically that it is a racist phrase.


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[Official OWECheer]

Well this is good to know! I really felt bad when the thread happened, because I genuinely had never heard that. I Googled it that day, and still felt like it was not a racist saying, but felt it was best to just let it go.


Thanks.

Now. Where were all you people when I was getting crucified? Just left me there... alone... Undefended.

I always get confused when people abbreviate you as JAM.