It generally doesn't. People should stop reviving the negative connotation. Sure if someone is calling a black person a spook let's call them out but if that's not how it's being used let's not insist it's an inherently racist term. It's totally counter-productive.

Not what you are doing, just elaborating because while it can be used as a racial slur it doesn't generally have that connotation. I think if you directly asked most people they would either not know about the slur or not be able to specifically identify the targeted group. We can choose to let the term die.