You have the blue eyes
Suddenly found this quote while paging through an intriguing flickr album.
I found him at a pro-Hezbollah rally in Paris. I asked if I could take a photograph of his interesting face. He tapped his ear, looked sideways, and then said I could take his picture even though “you have the blue eyes.”
I hadn’t realised that political issues surrounding Hezbollah had made such a leap to ethnicity.
What’s the deal with blue eyes? Only one thing comes to mind and I don’t think it applies here.
Jeremy Shoemaker
7 Jan 08 at 7:17 pm
The man’s implication was that someone with blue eyes was less trustworthy. Not only that, but this occurred in the middle of Paris, not a place where homogeneous ethnicity could limit people’s experience.
J Shanks
6 Aug 08 at 1:53 am