So the story goes like this...Two weeks ago I wrote a piece on Peter Ramsey, the first African-American animation director to direct a major big budget studio animated film, Dreamwork Animation's The Rise of the Guardians coming out this month (HERE) I made it clear that, of course, there are many people of color who are working in animation though we don't know who most of them are. But that wasn't good enough for one commentor who said: "You pass over them because many have assumedly Euro-sounding names. This has been the case in the present and the past. So unless you see a picture, it's like they don't exist. They do though." Of course...
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