Linguistic Disobedience by Yuliya Komska & Michelle Moyd & David Gramling

Author:Yuliya Komska & Michelle Moyd & David Gramling
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319920108
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Biko:

That is I think understating the position. I think it is possible to adapt to a given hard situation precisely because you have got to live it, and you have got to live with it every day. But adapting does not mean that you forget; you go to the mill every day, it is always unacceptable to you, it has always been unacceptable to you, and it remains so for life, but you adapt in the sense that you cannot continue to live in a state of conflict with yourself. […] You cannot keep answering back to him [i.e. a higher-ranking white employee] every day: don’t call me boy, don’t shout at me, don’t swear at me, because there is also the element of the job that he has got to keep. He had adapted but he does not forget it, and he does not accept it, which I think is important. (Biko 1986, pp. 114–115)

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