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Bob Dylan was a prominent supporter of the U.S. civil rights movement, but that isn't stopping a Croatian group from suing him for "racism."
According to Business Insider, a Croatian community association based in France is suing the rock icon over comments he made in a cover story in Rolling Stone.
In the interview, printed last year, Dylan is asked about parallels between the 1860s and present-day America, responding that the U.S. is "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," he adds. "Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."
Full: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5812247/bob-dylan-sued-by-croats-for-alleged-racism
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)you have to prove damages to win a suit.
GladRagDahl
(237 posts)are different in France.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).
malaise
(269,144 posts)NOT
mimi85
(1,805 posts)just have way too much time on their hands. Sheesh.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)there is no such thing as "Nazi blood." And as the Croat Council says, "You cannot compare Croatian criminals to all Croats".
rdharma
(6,057 posts)But if you look into the Croation Ustaa history of WWII...... they weren't nice folks.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)He knows all about America in the 1860's
and he apparently has discovered a new sense...where you can sense a person's ancestor's blood.... which has something to do with what they think of other races and religions.
Amazing.
Let's all sue him for being a complete moron.
spanone
(135,857 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Stupid, unfounded, made up opinions.
What do you expect from a Born Again.... but not any more.... or maybe....(who cares?)
elias7
(4,024 posts)telling everybody that how stupid they are
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Stupidly, he said something that came out sounding wrong. But, they asked him!
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)history impacts the present. He's not trying to be a politician or philosopher. He's expressing some views and opinions metaphorically as he typically does. No law should be against that. This really is a non-story. I think a government should have bigger fish to fry.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Best post of thread! Hits the nail on the head!
treestar
(82,383 posts)I'll take DNA tests before my "sense" that somebody might have slave master/Klan blood. In fact I think it'll take some words or actions on someone's part before I decide they might have Klan-like thoughts.