Former WWE Performer Clarence Mason recently spoke with In Your Head Radio, here are the highlights…
Would He Change Anything About His Time In Pro
Wrestling?: “I was extremely thankful to have started out where I
started out. Having started out there, in the big leagues, the learning curve
was extremely steep. I didn’t have time to pick up the ropes and everything…A
lot of things I learned, I picked up and I see things now after the fact,… but
trust you me, if things were done all over again, or even if I could go back or
even if I could just do it right now, things would be done different. But
listen; those are just some small things. All in all, my experience was second
to none. I’ll tell anybody; there’s this thing they used to do on the Disney
Channel: If you wish upon a star, it makes no difference who you are, anything
your heart’s desire it can come true. My dream came true, not once but twice. So
whatever problems I may have had, whatever issues how minor they were, paled in
comparison to the fact that I actually had a chance to live a dream. I was paid
to do something I would have done absolutely for free, and for that I am
extremely and eternally grateful.”
The Nation Of Domination Being A Racial Angle:
“I wasn’t a part of the creative aspect of that…but as far as race was
concerned, clearly (Vince) McMahon is an opportunist. There were some racial
aspects of it. Clearly if you look at what happened between Faarooq and Ahmed
Johnson, they played that step-it-and-fetch-it Uncle Tom routine and that was
what they did at the time. Looking back now, even how I played a part in that,
if I had to go back and do things all over again I surely would have played that
role of Mason a little differently with regard to how that dynamic was. I often
think, to be honest with you, you cheapen athletes and you cheapen talent by
always going the easy route. I think that if you’re creative with your
storylines I think that anyone and everyone can be promoted. There are times
that I saw storylines being written and I looked at the way they were written
and the grammar and the syntax and the manner in which words and phrases came
out and I’m like “Who the hell writes this crap?”…I felt bad that somebody
somewhere along the way felt that this was the way they needed to go. I also
felt bad that there are some people who were asked to do those things or say
those things in the manner in which they were said didn’t have enough to be able
to say “No, I’m not going to speak in this manner; I’m not going to do
this.”…You could still be a good talent who just happened to be a minority; not
a minority talent…It looks like things have changed, I see talent there right
now…some of them seem to have good mic skills, it just takes a bit of
cultivating, and they’re good.”
