The Spirit Murders of Black Male School Counselors

In recent literature, scholars have begun to show how Black male educators are being spiritually murdered by a system that was never intended to house Black bodies. Black male school counselors specifically are as magical as unicorns and are as powerful as some of our favorite childhood superheroes. Their strength and mystical presence often makes the world forget that they are also human. To their detriment, Black male school counselors are being recruited to use their superpowers while simultaneously being spiritually murdered by the same systems recruiting them. In this manuscript, I aim to: (1) articulate how the school counseling profession is a historically White institution and how it is spiritually murdering Black men in the profession; (2) explore how the intersection of being both Black and male influences the experiences of Black male school counselors; and (3) use the Ecological Social Justice School Counseling theory to provide recommendations for using antiracism, equity, and social justice to identify and dismantle school counseling as a historically White institution and to support the unique needs of Black male school counselors.