Bob Dylan Sued For Alleged Racism

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Bob Dylan may have just been named a Legion of Honour by France, but that won’t stop him from reportedly being sued by a Croatian community association out of France. The reasoning? Seemingly racist remarks made in a cover story interview with Rolling Stone last year. When asked about the Civil War era vs present-day America, Dylan had responded by saying:

“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.”

We’re betting you can guess which line the Croatian community is upset about. Taking action by suing Dylan and the French version of Rolling Stone, the secretary general of the organization, Vlatko Marić, said it was “an incitement to hatred” and that “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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