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...copies. It was also shown at All Womens' House in Stockholm. I hope that this film will be shown at Harvard in spite of Dr. Counter's ridiculous protests, his hypocritical concern for 'images of blacks' and his attempts to stir up racism in the Black Students' Association. Tore Hakansson...
...Hakansson (and his German female companion Fran Hosken) proceeded to show his grotesque films to an audience of about 25 white (mostly female)students and staff. These films contained no more than redundant sequences of sexual mutilation (clitoridectomy and scarification) of five-and six-year-old black youngsters who were shrieking and fighting during the act and being restrained by older women. Most of the audience literally ran out of the room during the first few minutes of this grotesque scene. Over the protests of Mr. Hakansson and his German companion, I disrupted his presentation and demanded that...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Hakansson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
According to authorities, these practices among remote African tribes have long since been outlawed by African governments. Moreover, where such aberrant patterns exist in "primitive" cultures, they were possibly introduced by men for the subjugation of women and simply remained in the culture for centuries, unchanged. Mr. Hakansson has neither the intellectual prowess nor academic training to elaborate on the possible origins and rationale for such patterns. He even erroneously associated this barbaric practice with Islam. Also, his outdated and cruelly staged German-made films (the German filmmakers seem to have a preoccupation with this sort of thing) have long...
...feeling of compassion and willingness to help these unfortunate women and girls. Dr. Counter's reaction is sick and sickening. He is incapable of understanding that it is the image of men, both Black and white, which is damaged when their cruelties to women and girls is exposed. Tore Hakansson...