Why "Black as the Ace of Spades"? Why not "Black as the Ace of Clubs"?

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JTP

Because a spade is so much cooler.

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Spades outrank clubs (I think). Therefore, "Black as the Ace of Spades", would mean the blackest of the black". (?)

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list12

This is the origin of the racial epithet "spade" used in the 1800s to describe a dark skinned black person. Its origins are derogatory at best.

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