Idris Elba tells how he was pelted with eggs by racists - but it was NOTHING compared to the abuse dad Winston faced

Racial abuse was pretty much the norm for screen idol Idris Elba as he grew up on the streets of East London.

Living in Hackney and Canning Town in the Seventies and Eighties he was called “a black ****” on the streets and pelted with eggs. According to the  Mirror uk, He says: “My school, Trinity, was just off the Barking Road, which would take all the National Front supporters to the football at West Ham.


“They’d come past school and if we got on that bus on a game day… mate, if you were Indian or black you were getting it. Eggs thrown at you, the whole thing.” he continues to say that ''I did experience racism on a smaller level,” he says. “All black men do. In school, in shops, when I was out with my friends.”


The Sky drama, which he co-produced and stars in, is set in a time when racism pervaded the very highest echelons of authority.
Scotland Yard’s Special Branch had a so-called “Black Power Desk” which focused on stamping out black protest – and was not averse to using violence.
“That’s the very same Scotland Yard that we respect now,” says Elba, disbelieving.

Guerrilla follows the lives of radical activists Jas Mitra and Marcus Hill, played by Freida Pinto, 32, and Babou Ceesay, 38. They were in the 300-strong BBP, Britain’s version of the US Black Panthers , “only without guns”.
Elba admits racism was always there when he was growing up, even in the multi-cultural Hackney Holly Street Estate.