Bob Dylan is being sued by a Croatian community based in France for racism. Bob Dylan was an outspoken supporter of civil rights. He sang about equality in songs like "Blowing in the Wind."

Bob Dylan is being sued because of comments he made in a recent cover story in Rolling Stone magazine, according to Business Insider magazine.

The Rolling Stone magazine interview came out last year. The magazine asked Bob Dylan about 1860s America and the present day. The "Like  Rolling Stone" singer said 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. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."

That caught the eye of France's Council of Croats. They sued the rock icon and the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine.

According to International Business Times, Vlatko Marić, secretary general of the Council of Croats, 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."

Croats and Serbs have been fighting for years. Their conflict culminated  in a four-year war that raged from 1991 to 1995. After the war, Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia.

Dylan could face a fine in France, which stricter free speech laws than America.

Just weeks ago, Bob Dylan was awarded France's highest military and civil esteem, the Legion of Honor. The award was not without its controversy. Several French groups protested Dylan's anti-war sentiments and marijuana use, among other complaints.