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...hyphenated identities are awkward, particularly 'Native American,'" Heston said. "I am a Native American, for God's sake. I also happen to be a blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux...
...Heston objected to the term "African American," noting that, when he worked with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., society was less sensitiv about terminology...
...King said 'Negroes.' Jimmy Baldwin and most of us on the march said 'black,'" Heston said...
...Though Heston said he recognized his opinions are not always popular, he told the audience--primarily composed of undergraduates and law students--that one must be prepared to "be humiliated and to endure the modern-day equivalent of the police dogs at Montgomery and the water cannons at Selma...
...must be willing to experience discomfort," Heston said, "I'm not complaining, but my own decades of social activism have left their mark...