You see, down there in Texas one of those darned illegal immigrants killed five people, execution style and for no damn reason, including two children. He is still at large. Since then, the Governor offered a $50,000 reward for his capture, noting that the killer was an illegal immigrant in the same tweet saying he sent his condolences to the family of the victims, also illegals. This was apparently "despicable" and "typical of the Republican's disregard for decency," according to some of those euphemism-eaters.
"Call a spade a spade" is a figurative expression. It refers to calling something "as it is"—that is, by its right or proper name, without "beating about the bush", but rather speaking truthfully, frankly, and directly about a topic, even to the point of bluntness or rudeness, and even if the subject is considered coarse, impolite, or unpleasant. (Wikipedia)
I don't know about you, but when I use a spade to dig in the dirt, I call it a spade. And when a crazy man kills five neighbors in cold blood, I call him a crazy man. I see no reason why we all can't know he is also an illegal immigrant -- are we afraid of hurting his feelings, or the feelings of other illegal immigrants who have broken the laws of our country?
Sorry, but I never learned how to effectively sidestep the truth. BTW, calling a spade a spade has nothing to do with denigrating black people. The expression dates back almost 500 years:
The idiom originates in the classical Greek of Plutarch's Apophthegmata Laconica, and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in Nicolas Udall's translation of the Apophthegmes. (Wikipedia)
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