Mason Weaver

Clarence "Mason" Weaver is an American social critic, motivational speaker, commentator, and author. He wrote It's OK to Leave the Plantation. 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.

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." The Cal Poly Judicial Affairs Office, after a seven-hour hearing in February 2003, found Hinkle guilty of "disruption of a campus event". The university was then sued by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the ACLU. The case was settled, with the student's record expunged of the incident and the university agreeing to narrow their definition of "disruption" to cover only willful disruption. and that homosexuality is "evil" and an "abomination". Weaver denied making any such comments.