Upton Sinclair: Understanding a Matter and One's Salary
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), U.S. muckraking* journalist
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KISWAHILI
"Ni vigumu kumfikia mtu kuelewa jambo, wakati mshahara wake unategemea kutokuelewalo kwake.”
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), mwandishi wa habari za uchunguzi*, mwandishi wa riwaya za kufichua, na mgombeaji wa ugavana wa Jimbo la California mnamo 1933-1934.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), muckraking* journalist, social reform novelist, and one-time gubernatorial candidate for the State of California in 1933-1934.
Asante na tutaonana tena (Thank you and may we see each other again),
Mmerikani
* A muckraker is a journalistic term associated with the Progressive Era (1890s to 1920s) of the United States that employed detailed, investigative reporting to expose abuses and unchecked exploitation occurring in new industries, politics, business, and the court systems, such as:
unsafe and unsanitary working environments of the meatpacking industry;
corrupt political municipalities;
questionable sentencing and subsequent leasing of convicts for unpaid labor; and
extrajudicial, lethal violence levied upon Black American citizens (lynching) as a means to obtain their land, businesses, and property at reduced prices.
Chanzo (source): Upton Sinclair. I, Candidate for Governor, originally published in 1935 by New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Republished by California: University of California Press, 1994, page 129. Kindle Edition.