Why the Black Lives Matter Movement Essential for Massive Change and Awareness

The Black Lives Matter Movement
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The Black Lives Matter Movement
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement regained momentum and highlighted the disadvantages that the Black community in the United States faces due to institutional racism. BLM was notable for highlighting and elevating problems concerning Black women. Cardiovascular illness, breast cancer, psychological symptoms, and maternal and newborn mortality are risks for black women (Bonilla & Tillery, 2020). Moreover, this article suggests that the Black Lives Matter movement is essential for massive change and vital awareness development. BLM proposes a paradigm of restorative justice that uses an anti-racist, integrative, comprehensive, politically, and culturally appropriate management strategy to emphasize the wellbeing of Blacks.
The rebirth of the Black Lives Matter movement in the middle of 2020 was preceded by extensive major protest and outcry in retaliation to the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and other Black people. Even though most protests are nonviolent, evidence shows that protestors are subjected to significant police misconduct compared to protests affiliated with other groups (Clayton, 2018). Because of the crises and turbulence that excessive police abuse against Black communities can bring, counselors must find strategies to assist communities in their communal forms of defiance and freedom (Mundt et al., 2018). Counselors can use the Social Justice and Multicultural Counseling Competencies, as well as the American Counseling Association's Advocacy Competencies, to provide trauma counseling to Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
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The campaign has expanded into a network of groups known as the Movement for Black Lives, which encompasses the campaign against systematic discrimination and structural violence that people of the Black community confront regularly. Researchers from various fields have analyzed and presented the campaign, although few studies have been done in psychology, particularly community psychology. Nevertheless, the complexity and diversity of media and the internet have heightened consciousness and provided a forum for this twenty-first-century movement (Bonilla & Tillery, 2020). Provided community psychology's emphasis on social justice, advocacy, and transformation, this is a once-in-a-lifetime platform to discover Black Lives Matter and the society's current debate on systematic oppression and anti-Black racism.
This paper issue aims to spark debate about several crucial matters related to what can be gained about social activity and how the community works. Psychology could be used to help progress the Black Lives Movement (Thomas & Zuckerman, 2018). Racism takes the form of individual racism, institutional racism, and cultural racism, which are all kinds of systemic anti-Black violence. Institutional racism refers to strategies and behaviors related to prejudice within institutions and organizations. The fundamental cause of racial inequality is structural or systematic racism, which consistently results in dire consequences for Black folks. Considering that culture is entrenched n...