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'''Clarence "Mason" Weaver''' is a social critic, motivational speaker, commentator, and author. He is African American and Conservative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RicTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22mason+weaver%22+black&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjay6TmgaHZAhVhja0KHbOiDWUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=%22mason+weaver%22+black&f=false|title=Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America|first=Angela D.|last=Dillard|date=11 February 2002|publisher=NYU Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> 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]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixO9pxMsohkC&pg=PA88&dq=%22mason+weaver%22+author&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRyK7K_6DZAhULVa0KHZhnC6g4ChDoAQguMAE#v=onepage&q=%22mason+weaver%22+author&f=false|title=Overcoming Racism.Through the Gospel|first=M. L.|last=Johnson|date=1 August 2007|publisher=Xulon Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> and argues against government dependence. Weaver has been a guest on various Conservative television programs.
==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.<ref>‘Done Nothing But Drive Us Apart’: Former Radical Black Panther Gets Candid On Obama, Race Relations [http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/02/done-nothing-but-drive-us-apart-former-radical-black-panther-gets-candid-on-obama-race-relations/].]]</ref>
Weaver changed his legal name to "Mason Weaver" in 1999.<ref name=PetersonMoney>{{cite news|last1=Peterson|first1=Kim|title=Opinionated political outsider emerges as likely front-runner; Mason Weaver has backing and money|publisher=The San Diego Union - Tribune|date=22 December 1999}}</ref> A former am radio talk show host, he had been using this name on air for several years.<ref name=PetersonMoney/> [[Fox News]] describes him as a former member of the [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] movement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ex-Black Panther: John Lewis 'Presided Over Destruction Of Black America'|url=http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/16/former-black-panther-mason-weaver-john-lewis-turncoat-donald-trump-destruction-black|accessdate=8 March 2018|publisher=Fox News|date=16 January 2017|ref=PantherFox}}</ref>
[[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''.<ref>Not Equal: Expanding Educational Opportunity in Society
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0820495220
M. Christopher Brown - 2007 pages 387 and 388</ref>
==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.<ref name=Suprynowicz>Back to the plantation;
Suprynowicz, Vin; [[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]06 July 2003</ref>
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."<ref name=Suprynowicz/>
==Cal Poly controversy==
[[California Polytechnic State University|Cal Poly]] student Steve Hinkle was punished for posting a flier on a public bulletin board announcing a College Republicans-sponsored talk by Weaver.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/06/local/me-calpoly06</ref><ref name=Suprynowicz/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-SH8LrHX4C&pg=PA136&dq=%22mason+weaver%22+polytech&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir4MyE_6DZAhVPgK0KHZXjDzYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22mason+weaver%22+polytech&f=false|title=Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation|first=Jim Nelson|last=Black|date=3 December 2012|publisher=Thomas Nelson|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>"[http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/152.html Major Victory for Free Speech at Cal Poly]", ''Foundation for Individual Rights in Education'', Press Release, May 6, 2004. Accessed October 6, 2008.</ref>
==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==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.clarenceamason.com Mason Weaver's website]
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:African-American writers]]
[[Category:Motivational speakers]]
[[Category:Social critics]]
'''Clarence "Mason" Weaver''' is a social critic, motivational speaker, commentator, and author. He is African American and Conservative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RicTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22mason+weaver%22+black&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjay6TmgaHZAhVhja0KHbOiDWUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=%22mason+weaver%22+black&f=false|title=Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America|first=Angela D.|last=Dillard|date=11 February 2002|publisher=NYU Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> 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]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixO9pxMsohkC&pg=PA88&dq=%22mason+weaver%22+author&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRyK7K_6DZAhULVa0KHZhnC6g4ChDoAQguMAE#v=onepage&q=%22mason+weaver%22+author&f=false|title=Overcoming Racism.Through the Gospel|first=M. L.|last=Johnson|date=1 August 2007|publisher=Xulon Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> and argues against government dependence. Weaver has been a guest on various Conservative television programs.
==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.<ref>‘Done Nothing But Drive Us Apart’: Former Radical Black Panther Gets Candid On Obama, Race Relations [http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/02/done-nothing-but-drive-us-apart-former-radical-black-panther-gets-candid-on-obama-race-relations/].]]</ref>
Weaver changed his legal name to "Mason Weaver" in 1999.<ref name=PetersonMoney>{{cite news|last1=Peterson|first1=Kim|title=Opinionated political outsider emerges as likely front-runner; Mason Weaver has backing and money|publisher=The San Diego Union - Tribune|date=22 December 1999}}</ref> A former am radio talk show host, he had been using this name on air for several years.<ref name=PetersonMoney/> [[Fox News]] describes him as a former member of the [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] movement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ex-Black Panther: John Lewis 'Presided Over Destruction Of Black America'|url=http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/16/former-black-panther-mason-weaver-john-lewis-turncoat-donald-trump-destruction-black|accessdate=8 March 2018|publisher=Fox News|date=16 January 2017|ref=PantherFox}}</ref>
[[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''.<ref>Not Equal: Expanding Educational Opportunity in Society
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0820495220
M. Christopher Brown - 2007 pages 387 and 388</ref>
==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.<ref name=Suprynowicz>Back to the plantation;
Suprynowicz, Vin; [[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]06 July 2003</ref>
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."<ref name=Suprynowicz/>
==Cal Poly controversy==
[[California Polytechnic State University|Cal Poly]] student Steve Hinkle was punished for posting a flier on a public bulletin board announcing a College Republicans-sponsored talk by Weaver.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/06/local/me-calpoly06</ref><ref name=Suprynowicz/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-SH8LrHX4C&pg=PA136&dq=%22mason+weaver%22+polytech&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir4MyE_6DZAhVPgK0KHZXjDzYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22mason+weaver%22+polytech&f=false|title=Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation|first=Jim Nelson|last=Black|date=3 December 2012|publisher=Thomas Nelson|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>"[http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/152.html Major Victory for Free Speech at Cal Poly]", ''Foundation for Individual Rights in Education'', Press Release, May 6, 2004. Accessed October 6, 2008.</ref>
==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==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.clarenceamason.com Mason Weaver's website]
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:African-American writers]]
[[Category:Motivational speakers]]
[[Category:Social critics]]
