Blue Eyes, Blond Hair, and Racist Minds

Nour Alhakk
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 12, 2022

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How the Ukraine war exposed the West’s true face.

According to the Western mentality, blue eyes and blonde hair define Europeans. Photo of a Syrian refugee by Talha Nair on Unsplash

To David Sakvarelidze, Ukraine’s former deputy general prosecutor, Europeans are of two kinds, the “real” ones with blue eyes and blond hair and the “fake” ones who are originally Asians, Arabs, Africans, and South Americans.

That explains why people of color struggle to escape the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as reported by Aljazeera. NBC News also reported that thousands of African residents in Ukraine reported racist discrimination and abuse at the border while trying to flee the country.

Sakvarelidze told the BBC:

It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed. …(they) shouldn’t have to be killed everyday with Putin’s missiles.

But It’s totally fine for Putin’s missiles and cluster bombs to be dropped on Syrians. Who cares about those “second-class humans”?! They are a “developing third world nation.” It’s as this hypocrite Britain’s ITV correspondent has put it:

Now the unthinkable…

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Nour Alhakk
ILLUMINATION

An avid writer with invaluable knowledge in religion, history, and politics.