{"id":7183,"date":"2010-12-23T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/racists-totally-freak-out-over-idris-elba-playing\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:11:21","slug":"racists-totally-freak-out-over-idris-elba-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/racists-totally-freak-out-over-idris-elba-playing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7183 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/racists-totally-freak-out-over-idris-elba-playing\/attachment\/7184\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_lduw1isCbQ1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_lduw1isCbQ1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_lduw1isCbQ1qzxaqho1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/12\/16\/racists-thor-idris-ebla-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racists Totally Freak Out Over Idris Elba Playing Norse God in &lsquo;Thor&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that the totally made-up-by-medieval-drunks gods of Norse mythology were all white? Literally<em>none<\/em>\u00a0of them were African. We didn&rsquo;t know that, but thanks to the prodigious efforts of the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cofcc.org\/\">Council of Conservative Citizens<\/a>\u00a0and their friends at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/boycott-thor.com\/\">Boycott-Thor.com<\/a>, the truth has been revealed: Heimdall, Sentry of Asgard, was\u00a0<em>white<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Idris Elba, the English actor hired to portray Heimdall in Marvel Studios&#8217;\u00a0<em>Thor<\/em>, is black!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Asshats.<\/p>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/98784\/Black-Jesus-approves\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racists Totally Freak Out Over Idris Elba Playing Norse God in &lsquo;Thor&rsquo; Did you know that the totally made-up-by-medieval-drunks gods of Norse mythology were all white? Literallynone\u00a0of them were African. We didn&rsquo;t know that, but thanks to the prodigious efforts of the\u00a0Council of Conservative Citizens\u00a0and their friends at\u00a0Boycott-Thor.com, the truth has been revealed: Heimdall, Sentry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/racists-totally-freak-out-over-idris-elba-playing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}