Thursday, April 19, 2012

Rays Family Life; Category 3; Entry 2

Rays Views on Marrige:
            Ray believed that his style with women and his needs for women didn’t match up with the demands and dilemmas that marriage had put in his way. He also believed from his point of view that all marriage is the possession and ownership of a person as though they were just a material object. Ray simply did not want to feel as though he was owned by another person. Ray states,

“Marriage only got started when men wanted a way to fence off their property. So we set up these rules and started marrying gals. The gals felt like they were being protected. To them, it was their sole method of survival. Many times women weren’t allowed to learn to read or write. And they were hid back the ways the blacks had been stifled by whites. That’s how men were able to control women for so long. And that’s how our attitudes got so crazy and one-sided.”

(source found on page 2 of 2 printed from http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/charlesray.htm). Some biographers noted that he was indifferent to his wives, lovers, and children. Rays had a weakness for womanizing that was legendary. Ray had many affairs throughout his entire life. He also had many children by many different women.

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