Is Privilege a Blind Spot?
Jun 13, 2025What if privilege isn’t what we think it is?
What if it’s not just about wealth or power or even access—but about what we haven’t had to see?
I’ve been sitting with this idea lately:
Maybe privilege is just a blind spot.
Not something to feel ashamed of. Not something to feel superior about. But a kind of unawareness—an insulation from the pain that others live with every day.
That doesn’t mean the pain isn’t real.
Racism is real. It wounds. It kills. It shapes lives—stealing time, joy, and safety.
But if part of privilege is being shielded from those realities, then maybe the work of waking up isn’t about self-loathing. Maybe it’s about seeing clearly.
And here’s where this gets really hopeful:
What if the solution to racism, to othering, to all this painful division… is simpler than we think?
What if it lives inside our own hearts?
The Blind Spot and the Heart
There’s a quote I love:
“If we knew everything about another person, we would love them to the moon and back.”
Every time I think about it, I soften.
If I knew the whole story—every ache, every trauma, every inherited belief, every time someone felt small or unsafe—I would love that person. Not because they earned it. But because they’re human.
And here’s the thing:
That’s true for everyone.
If we knew everything about everybody, we would love everybody.
That kind of love—raw, radical, empathetic—is not weakness. It’s wisdom.
Where Did Othering Even Come From?
Othering is old. It goes back to survival instincts, tribal boundaries, maybe even fear of disease or scarcity. Somewhere along the way, it became a habit:
We’re safe. They’re not.
We’re right. They’re wrong.
We belong. They don’t.
Othering got baked into systems—enslaving, colonizing, excluding, policing.
But what if we stopped thinking of it as inevitable?
What if we stopped assuming this is just the way people are?
Because if othering can be learned, it can also be unlearned.
And if blindness is part of privilege, then awareness is the beginning of change.
A Source of Inspiration
I think often of how many in the Black community have responded to generations of harm—not with hatred, but with wisdom. With music. With movement. With fire and grace.
Black leaders, teachers, and artists have modeled for the rest of us what it looks like to tell the truth without losing the heart. What it looks like to create joy even when joy has been denied. What it looks like to fight for a future that includes everyone.
That is not just survival. That is sacred.
And within that sacred survival, there is so much more:
Black pride. The deep knowing of worth, of legacy, of beauty that no system could erase.
Black joy. The laughter that bubbles up in the face of pain. The creativity that refuses to be boxed in. The dance, the fashion, the music, the poetry. The celebration of being alive, being Black, being whole.
Black pride and Black joy are not reactions to oppression.
They are inheritances. They are birthrights.
They are a spiritual and cultural legacy that belongs to Black people—and a light for the rest of us to learn from.
The Black community has been holding that light.
What if we chose to follow it?
The Solution Is Already in You
In my coaching work, I help people remember that they don’t have to live their lives defined by current circumstances. We don’t have to wait for perfect conditions to become who we came here to be. We can live from vision instead of from fear. From imagination instead of limitation.
This is as true for our inner liberation as it is for social change.
What if the path to racial justice doesn’t begin with guilt or overwhelm—but with vision?
What if healing our blind spots starts with compassion, clarity, and the courage to imagine something more beautiful?
We each carry that power.
The solution is not out of reach. It’s already inside you.
And if you want support stepping into that vision—both for yourself and for your family—I’m here.
Let’s walk that path together.
Where might you have privilege be a blind spot? And what becomes possible when you start to see with compassion, not shame?
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