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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gavin-newsom-told-predominantly-black-182551303.html

California Governor Gavin Newsom wants you to know he's just a regular
guy. He can't read. He barely passed the SATs. He grew up scraping by on frozen lasagna and mac and cheese rCo never mind the billionaire family friends, the winery empire, or the $30 million net worth.

And on Sunday night at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, he
wanted a predominantly Black audience to know that too. That he's just
like them. Because he can't read. 'I'm Like You'

Newsom was in Georgia for the launch of his memoir, Young Man in a
Hurry, seated alongside Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. When Dickens asked
what he hoped readers would take from the book, Newsom leaned in with
what was clearly meant to be disarming vulnerability.

"I'm not trying to impress you," Newsom said. "I'm just trying to
impress upon you I'm like you. I'm no better than you. I'm a 960 SAT
guy." He paused. "I'm not trying to offend anyone rCo trying to act all
there if you got 940." "You've never seen me read a speech, because I
cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in."

The audience chuckled. Dickens nodded along.

The average SAT score for Black test-takers, according to 2024 College
Board data, is 907 out of 1600. The national average is 1024. Newsom
scored 960 rCo and chose to tell a room in a city that is nearly half
Black that his below-average score was evidence they were the same.

He wasn't bonding over shared policy frustrations or economic anxiety.
He chose test scores and the inability to read. The question nobody in
the room asked him was the one the internet couldn't stop asking: What
exactly did he think the audience had in common with him?

Newsom has spoken publicly for years about living with dyslexia, and he mentioned it again Sunday rCo the kid in the back of the classroom praying
the teacher wouldn't call on him. That's a real struggle. But struggling
with dyslexia and telling a predominantly Black audience "I'm like you rCo
I can't read" are two very different conversations. Newsom merged them
into one.

Rapper Nicki Minaj posted an extended response on X that went further
than most. "His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid
he is & that he can't read," she wrote. Then she pointed to something
subtler rCo his delivery. "He's literally slowing his speech down &
talking in a sporadic cadence. As if they're children."

This isn't Newsom's first stumble with the regular-guy routine. His
father was a state appeals court judge who managed the Getty family
trust rCo valued in the billions. The Gettys took young Gavin on vacations
to Canada and Kenya. At 24, Gordon Getty bankrolled Newsom's first
business: PlumpJack wine shop, which grew into an empire of wineries, restaurants, and hotels. That same year, he appeared in a San Francisco Chronicle feature titled, with no apparent irony, "Children of the Rich."

None of that disqualifies someone from public service. But it makes "I'm
just like you" ring hollow when you're saying it to a room of people who probably didn't have a billionaire funding their first business.
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From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

On 2/23/2026 11:23 AM, Wilson wrote:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gavin-newsom-told-predominantly- black-182551303.html

California Governor Gavin Newsom wants you to know he's just a regular
guy. He can't read. He barely passed the SATs. He grew up scraping by on frozen lasagna and mac and cheese rCo never mind the billionaire family friends, the winery empire, or the $30 million net worth.

They say Gavin Newsom made his money primarily through the PlumpJack
Group, a hospitality empire he co-founded in 1992, which started as a
wine shop and grew from there. Apparently, his stake was placed in a
blind trust when he became Governor.

And on Sunday night at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, he
wanted a predominantly Black audience to know that too. That he's just
like them. Because he can't read. 'I'm Like You'

Newsom was in Georgia for the launch of his memoir, Young Man in a
Hurry, seated alongside Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. When Dickens asked
what he hoped readers would take from the book, Newsom leaned in with
what was clearly meant to be disarming vulnerability.

"I'm not trying to impress you," Newsom said. "I'm just trying to
impress upon you I'm like you. I'm no better than you. I'm a 960 SAT
guy." He paused. "I'm not trying to offend anyone rCo trying to act all there if you got 940." "You've never seen me read a speech, because I
cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in."

The audience chuckled. Dickens nodded along.

The average SAT score for Black test-takers, according to 2024 College
Board data, is 907 out of 1600. The national average is 1024. Newsom
scored 960 rCo and chose to tell a room in a city that is nearly half
Black that his below-average score was evidence they were the same.

He wasn't bonding over shared policy frustrations or economic anxiety.
He chose test scores and the inability to read. The question nobody in
the room asked him was the one the internet couldn't stop asking: What exactly did he think the audience had in common with him?

Newsom has spoken publicly for years about living with dyslexia, and he mentioned it again Sunday rCo the kid in the back of the classroom praying the teacher wouldn't call on him. That's a real struggle. But struggling with dyslexia and telling a predominantly Black audience "I'm like you rCo
I can't read" are two very different conversations. Newsom merged them
into one.

Rapper Nicki Minaj posted an extended response on X that went further
than most. "His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid
he is & that he can't read," she wrote. Then she pointed to something subtler rCo his delivery. "He's literally slowing his speech down &
talking in a sporadic cadence. As if they're children."

This isn't Newsom's first stumble with the regular-guy routine. His
father was a state appeals court judge who managed the Getty family
trust rCo valued in the billions. The Gettys took young Gavin on vacations to Canada and Kenya. At 24, Gordon Getty bankrolled Newsom's first
business: PlumpJack wine shop, which grew into an empire of wineries, restaurants, and hotels. That same year, he appeared in a San Francisco Chronicle feature titled, with no apparent irony, "Children of the Rich."

None of that disqualifies someone from public service. But it makes "I'm just like you" ring hollow when you're saying it to a room of people who probably didn't have a billionaire funding their first business.

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