Mason Weaver facts for kids
Clarence "Mason" Weaver is a social critic, motivational speaker, commentator, and author. He wrote It's OK to Leave the Plantation (1998). An African American and a conservative, he has been a guest on various conservative television programs. He was also an advisor to President Donald Trump.
Background
Weaver changed his legal name to "Mason Weaver" in 1999. A former AM radio talk show host, he had been using this name on air for several years. Fox News describes him as a former member of the Black Panther movement.
M. Christopher Brown II wrote about meeting Weaver, exchanging ideas, and lessons he learned from him in his 2007 book Not Equal: Expanding Educational Opportunity in Society.
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, according opinion writer Vin Suprynowicz.
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."
Alleged statements about women
In 2019, Media Matters alleged that Weaver stated in his youtube channel that women should be handmaidens, and that homosxuality is "evil" and an "abomination". Weaver denied making any such comments.
