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Bob Dylan has been sued for making allegedly 'racist' anti-Croatian comments in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
As Business Insider reports, the music icon is the target of legal action from a Croatian community association in France. The Council of Croats have taken offense to comments he made in an interview with Rolling Stone last year. Both he and the magazine are being sued. I
In the interview, Dylan was asked about similarities and differences between the 1860s and America today, when he replied:
"Mmm, I don't know how to put it. It's like . . . the United States burned and destroyed itself for the sake of slavery. The USA wouldn't give it up. It had to be grinded out. The whole system had to be ripped out with force. A lot of killing. What, like, 500,000 people? A lot of destruction to end slavery. And that's what it really was all about. This country is just too fucked up about color. It's a distraction. People at each other's throats just because they are of a different color. It's the height of insanity, and it will hold any nation back – or any neighborhood back. Or any anything back. Blacks know that some whites didn't want to give up slavery – that if they had their way, they would still be under the yoke, and they can't pretend they don't know that. If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."
Speaking to International Business Times,secretary general of the Council of Croats Vlatko Marić said: ""It is an incitement to hatred. You cannot compare Croatian criminals to all Croats. But we have nothing against Rolling Stone magazine or Bob Dylan as a singer."
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