Mason Weaver
Clarence "Mason" Weaver is a social critic, motivational speaker, commentator, and author. He is African American and Conservative.[1] He wrote It's OK to Leave the Plantation which begins with an account of a speech given by the man credited with establishing the term lynching[2] and argues against government dependence. Weaver has been a guest on various Conservative television programs.
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Background
In an interview with The Daily Caller, Weaver described his service in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, and his membership in the Black Panthers as a "hate filled" youth at Berkeley.[3]
Weaver changed his legal name to "Mason Weaver" in 1999.[4] A former am radio talk show host, he had been using this name on air for several years.[4] Fox News describes him as a former member of the Black Panther movement.[5]
M. Christopher Brown II wrote about meeting Mason Weaver, exchanging ideas, and lessons he learned from Weaver in his 2007 book Not Equal: Expanding Educational Opportunity in Society.[6]
It's OK to Leave the Plantation
In his 1998 book It's OK to Leave the Plantation, Weaver recounts his personal trajectory "from Berkeley militant to conservative businessman," and likens the contemporary dependence of significant numbers of African-Americans on government aid programs to slavery, complete with "overseers" and "drivers" of black citizens in the "mental plantation" of welfare programs.[7]
Kimberley Wilson of Project 21 described it as "a remarkably hopeful book written by a man who has not only faced naked racism and discrimination, but also suffered greatly because of it."[7]
Cal Poly controversy
Cal Poly student Steve Hinkle was punished for posting a flier on a public bulletin board announcing a College Republicans-sponsored talk by Weaver.[8][7] The Cal Poly Judicial Affairs Office, after a seven-hour hearing in February 2003, found Hinkle guilty of "disruption of a campus event" and was sued by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the ACLU. The case was settled.[9][10]
Bibliography
- Tribalism: The truth between the lies March 20, 2014 by Clarence Mason Weaver
- Polishing the Diamond in the Rough December 12, 2007 by Mason Weaver and I.C. Jackson
- Diamond in the Rough! September 2004 by Mason Weaver
- The Rope: A New Perspective on Freedom and Success August 2001 by C. Mason Weaver
- It's OK to Leave the Plantation : The New Underground Railroad July 1, 1998 by C. Mason Weaver
References
- ↑ Dillard, Angela D. (11 February 2002). "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America". NYU Press – via Google Books.
- ↑ Johnson, M. L. (1 August 2007). "Overcoming Racism.Through the Gospel". Xulon Press – via Google Books.
- ↑ ‘Done Nothing But Drive Us Apart’: Former Radical Black Panther Gets Candid On Obama, Race Relations [1].]]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Peterson, Kim (22 December 1999). "Opinionated political outsider emerges as likely front-runner; Mason Weaver has backing and money". The San Diego Union - Tribune.
- ↑ "Ex-Black Panther: John Lewis 'Presided Over Destruction Of Black America'". Fox News. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ↑ Not Equal: Expanding Educational Opportunity in Society https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0820495220 M. Christopher Brown - 2007 pages 387 and 388
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Back to the plantation; Suprynowicz, Vin; Las Vegas Review-Journal06 July 2003
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/06/local/me-calpoly06
- ↑ Black, Jim Nelson (3 December 2012). "Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation". Thomas Nelson – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Major Victory for Free Speech at Cal Poly", Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Press Release, May 6, 2004. Accessed October 6, 2008.
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