Now you don’t seem so proud, Bob Dylan.
The legendary singer-songwriter has been slapped with a lawsuit by a Croatian group in France after the former civil-rights symbol compared Croats to Nazis and Civil War-era slave owners, reports said.
“If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that,” Dylan told Rolling Stone during a conversation about US race relations printed in the magazine in September 2012.
“That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood.”
The Council of Croats in France sued Dylan and the French edition of Rolling Stone, according to Slate.fr.
Because France has very restrictive free-speech laws, Dylan and Rolling Stone could face fines and formal sanctions if a court rules them guilty, the Web site said.
There has been bad blood between the Serbians and Croatians since Serbia allegedly committed genocide on Croatian citizens in the ’90s when Yugoslavia broke up.