Oh shut up already, Mr. Dylan.
Listening to any “EntertainmentPerson” on any subject other than their act leads to such situations.
Why ask or listen?
.but for God’s sake DO NOT “SING” if what you do can be called that.
Hear! Hear!
Find me an example of a country that was not founded on some sort of forced labor: slaves, serfs, indentured servants, castes tied to menial jobs, and the like were the norm throughout human history until British and American Christians decided to abolish the practice and the Tsar finally liberated the serfs, all in the mid-19th century.
Okay, maybe New Zealand, but that's about it. If some Kiwi wants to bash the U.S. for our "history of slavery", I suppose we should take our lumps, but the rest of the world can shut up about it.
I’m offended that one would think and influence others that America was founded on the backs of slaves. My family, like many other Europeans, came to this country for the opportunity to work and have a chance for success. They brought with them what little wealth they had accumulated, skills, desire to own their own business, and a serious work ethnic. In my opinion this is what built America, not slavery.
Remember, like virtually all sixties mythical rock figures, Dylan consumed a lot of stuff during that period. I firmly believe the drop in the quality of Dylan’s and other famous rockers whose work went downhill after the sixties was due to drugs.