Dear Mr. Wharton:

This article is about the potential changing hands of Time Warner's top job from Richard Parsons to Jeff Bewkes.

I'm not sure why you referenced slavery or Hillary Clinton's gender in your comment - unless you were perhaps providing two additional examples of infomation completely innappropriate to this article?

This is a business article. Congratulations to Richard Parsons, and to all those at Time Warner, for the fine work they have accomplished while working together over the past several years.

Laura, California

Laura , Agoura Hills,

This is to Craig of Springvill USA --
We mention that Richard Parsons is African American because of the history of slavery in the United States of America. The remnants of that history are still evident enough so that black people at Richard Parsons' level are extremely rare. It's the same reason we still see gender at the presidential level, Craig. This is just to help you out in case you were wondering why everyone was making a big deal about Hillary. You probably don't "see" gender either.

Michael Wharton, Washington DC, dc

Just going to echo what's been said before: What the heck is being said re: CNN and Harry Potter. That's either a bad piece of writing or the editor did a horrific job in not noticing that line makes no sense.

Speaking of poor editing - why did you mention that Parsons is African-American? The article doesn't mention the racial make up of any other people. Nor should it.

Pete, New York,

What is up with that first PP? And who cares that he's an african american...

levi, bob,

Why is it important to mention that Richard Parson's is African-American? When will you Americans get past the issue of race and start seeing people as just people. You will never be a strong, united country because you are too hung up on race. A country divided by race will never survive.

Paul Arnold, Laguna Beach, california, usa

Dan Sabbagh, I get the feeling that you're most focused on his race than his accomplishments.."The blacks are going out the door..Let's Party!!"

ace, charlotte,

amen to that. I have also heard that he is strongly considering running for mayor of NYC. I say, go for it! Would take a former CEO like him or Bloomberg anyday, versus the other career political hacks.

JRH, New York, NY

the tell-tale sign of any underlying salient factor... take a seemingly irrelevant fact and raise it to prominence ...without mention of why in the world it was mentioned.

now, our minds are free to roam the halls of gross stereotyping.

nice.

edgar kane, new york, ny, usa

There is no value in the way this article points out that Dick Parsons is an African-American. Perhaps your readers would have been better served to know that Mr. Parsons was the first African-American to run a major media conglomerate and with his depature there will be none.

Don, Alpharetta, USA / Georgia

So Richard Parsons is African-American. What is the ethnicity of Jeff Bewkes? What nationality is Carl Icahn, or Steve Case, or Dan Sabbagh, or Harry Potter? What difference does it make?

Color blind in USA

Craig, Springvill, USA