> Actually it is a common term within the black community.
It's great that they finally have one authoritative community now[*]. But it makes me a little uneasy that there's only one of them. Damn, black.org is already taken (damn domain squatters!). They could have each gotten their own unique email address!
/jordan
[*] As heard on the Daily Show: if you're darker than a caramel, Rev. Al speaks for you!
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CB: Lets put it this way. I have heard "so and so 'passed' or 'made her transition' from a lot of Black people. ( "Gone on to a better life"; it is a reference to life after death). I can't recall hearing it from a white person, but maybe some white people use it too. It might be like a lot of Black English: not "authoritative" but confined enough to Black people and enough of them ( though not all) such that it is meaningful to designate it as "Black English" or current Black slang. There are always some white people who speak Black slang.
Here's another one coming down the Black pike. "That's a good ideal" for "That's a good idea." You heard it here first ( smile).
In a minute, y'all.