"the men we carry in our minds" thinking about the text blog

1. The men he knew "were twisted and maimed in ways visible and invisible. The nails of their hands were black and split, the hands tatooed with scars. Some had lost fingers.." some people got ulcers from racing the conveyor belt. The laborers' ankles and knees hurt from years of standing on concrete, some lost most of their hearing, squinted because they couldn't see very well etc... but what he noticed the most was that men wore out faster than women, women would be able to live to an old age.
2. Those men never seat or break down like mules, and he almost never saw them work at all. They just looked bored 24/7. They were people that would just sit around and wait for the wars, transfers, leaves, promotions, and the end of their hitch. He says soldiers are like the hammer was for driving nails.
3. These men he spoke about where business men. they dressed nicely and wore hats and luxuries, something the laboring man did not have. it seemed to him it was farther than ever to reach to that point in their society with minority groups. An example he showed was when his father worked his way to a white shirt and tie job but because of the earlier years of labor had finished his body quickly and didn't retain the job for long because he was too battered up that his body couldn't take it anymore.
4. His father had worked his way to a white collar job in a an office, until he had to stop.
5. According to Sanders women has had a better life because the men were the ones working their butts of day and night with no rest because when the men would get home the would have to work more to keep their home together. And that they weren't the ones being shipped off to a war to die. Because when the man of the family lost their job and money would stop coming in then the men were the ones who had failed , not the women.
6. The white man was never laid off or lining up to get welfare because they always had money and had cars more than then Sander's house, unlike the the minority and laboring man that lived in "los barrios" and "ghettos".
7. They want to share the power and glory and the say over their future for jobs worth their ability, and the right to live in peace that the rich white man has, like the white man's daughters'.