Blindspot by Judah Patterson
BLINDSPOT…The students were tasked to imagine themselves sitting on a park bench, waiting for a friend, when a blind person suddenly appears and asks the student, “What do you see?”
JUDAH…deploys “a Karen” to remind us just how blind humanity can be.
Blindspot
One summer day this lady, (will call her Karen to paint a picture in your head). Anyway, Karen went out to go meet one of her friends at a park. When she got there, her friend was a bit late. They were supposed to meet at 2:30 but her friend wasn’t there and it was 0.5 seconds after 2:30. As Karen’s name suggests, this behavior was unacceptable, so she went to sit on a bench and she sent her friend a long email complaining about how late they were.
I can’t read the email out loud just because it has extremely colorful language not suitable for a school setting. Anyway, 0.02 milliseconds after this long email she was still sitting on a bench when she noticed this blind black dude who looked to be in his late 20s who had dark black sunglasses. The man was holding an ice cream and walking in her direction and she felt unsafe. Karen felt so scared that she gripped her purse so hard that her fake tan lotion started to melt under her sweaty hand. All of a sudden she noticed that one of the white couples in the park got into a fight and the husband started to get physical. Karen thought this was hilarious. What could the woman have done to make her husband so upset? She should have just kept quiet about all of her feelings and emotions like a good tradwife, Karen thought to herself. She was so focused on the couple that she didn’t notice the blind person was sitting next to her.
In her personal space! Five feet away from her!!!! She tried to hold all of her Karen instincts inside so she wouldn’t yell. She knew she was in a hostile situation. I have to be careful, she thought to herself. These kinds of people are so unpredictably dangerous, like how is he holding that ice cream if he’s blind!! A couple of seconds went by of Karen sitting next to the blind person when he asked her. “What do you see?” Karen was in shock. She didn’t think these kinds of people could talk so well. “Well?” The blind person asked her. She didn’t answer, she was frozen in fear.
The blind person then asked her if everything was alright and she didn’t answer. Eventually Karen’s friend came and saw what the situation was. We’ll call him Hankkk, spelled with three K’s at the end. “And who might you be!!” Hankkk violently yelled. The blind person responded with, “my name is Daquarius Freeman. How are you doing and what do you see?” Mr Freeman calmly said. Mr Hankkk yelled at Karen to get up. violently grabbed her and they both ran off into the sunset happily ever after. The end.
Judah Patterson
9/26/2025