Tangled up in blue: Bob Dylan accused of racism by angry Croats in France

“PARIS — Legendary singer Bob Dylan is being asked to apologize for remarks he made in an interview that have ran afoul of French anti-racism laws.

“Dylan has been charged with inciting hatred by Paris prosecutors after comments made to Rolling Stone magazine last year sparked a complaint from the Council of Croats in France (CRICCF).

"’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,’ Dylan was quoted as saying in the context of an answer about race relations in the United States.”

http://www.newsmaxworld.com/Europe/france-dylan-racist-investigated/2013/12/03/id/539609#ixzz2mQa2367V

(Maybe I missed it, but the story does not say the interview was done in France.

(“…comments made to Rolling Stone magazine last year…”

(“Dylan, 72, was informed of the charges against him last month, while he was in Paris…”)

(French justice (cough-cough) believes it has a far reach.)

Found at maggiesfarm.