Top 5 Dangerous black people in America #2

Coming in at number two. Richard D. Parsons. I know you're asking yourself; WHO the hell is Richard D. Parsons? He's the CEO of AOL-Time Warner. He's flown under the radar for about thirty years but now we're gonna put him on blast.

Richard D. Parsons


Origin: Born April 4, 1948. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Parsons graduated from the University of Hawaii, where he played varsity basketball. He earned a law degree from Albany Law School. He caught the eye of the late Nelson A. Rockefeller out of law school, after he nailed the top score (1971) on the New York State bar exam. Parsons even lived in Rockefeller's compound for a time and became a trustee of his assets after the former vice president's death (1979). Parsons served as a lawyer for New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and followed Rockefeller to Washington when he became vice president in 1974. In 1977 Parsons returned to New York and joined Wall Street law firm Patterson, Belknap. A former law partner of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Parsons managed Giuliani's transition into the New York mayor's office. He was appointed to the Time Warner board in 1991 and was offered the chief executive job by Levin. He left the firm to become president of Dime Savings Bank. He became the bank's CEO, seeing it through a merger with Anchor Savings Bank. In 1995 he became president of Time Warner, helping negotiate its merger with America Online, which created a $165-billion media empire in 2000. In December 2001 AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin announced plans to retire in May 2002 and declared that Parsons would succeed him. The move surprised many media watchers who assumed that AOL Time Warner chief operating officer Robert Pittman would take the helm. Also in 2001, President Bush selected Parson to cochair a commission on Social Security. In addition, Parsons worked on the transition team for Michael Bloomberg, who was elected mayor of New York City in 2001.

First Appearance: Served as a lawyer for New York governor Nelson Rockefeller (1972)

Powers: Great business sense. Has a the power to fly under the radar and avoid the glass ceiling that most African-Americans face in corporate America.

Potential for Danger: If Richard D. Parsons turned militant it would probably solve the black unemployment problem in America and hook black people up with cable for life. Rumor has it he's working on a mind control device that will be placed in Time Warner cable boxes, that will send out subliminal messages to white America to hire more African-Americans.

Weaknesses: None that we know of.

Group Affiliations: Chairman of the Apollo Theatre Foundation, and also serves on the boards of Citigroup, Estee Lauder, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, Howard University and the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy.

Please stay tuned because Friday we reveal number one.