Americans of African Descent, the victim mentality, and value formation through a family

Joseph M Sparrow

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Americans of African Descent, the victim mentality, and value formation through a family

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Joseph M Sparrow. Americans of African Descent, the Victim Mentality, and Value Formation Through a Family. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3287e7d8-adba-45a3-a5cc-d53c8b44667b.

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Why have Americans of African descent, as a group, not progressed as much as other racial groups in the areas of economics, education, traditional family development, and socialization? There seem to be two extremes in answer to this question. The liberal side seems to blame the system. The reason many black Americans fall behind other groups is blamed on institutional racism or something ingrained in the American system that curtail flourishing for Americans of African descent. On the other hand, most on the moderate and conservative sides do not deny the black experience through slavery and Jim Crow. Yet they emphasized that Americans of African descent can do better by practicing the same tried and true methods that made other Americans successful. The dissertation will take the view that the major source of the problems in the black community has its origin in the demise of the traditional family. Statistics, written testimony, historical fact, common sense, and a biblical Christian worldview will be used to help pinpoint and offer solutions to the problem. The family that is founded on one mother and one father who are married to each other and who respond to one another as well as their children, in the way the Bible prescribes, is the only normal family. Anything else can only be second best. When children are socialized in a loving and disciplined environment, they have the greatest probability to flourish as human beings.

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