I'm Not Falling For Gavin Newsom.

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Newsom tried to relate to his audience in Atlanta by saying “I’m just like you” after boasting of his low SAT score. Does he think black people are stupid, or—even worse—that everyday Americans are? Let’s talk about it.

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0:00.0	I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you.
0:06.0	I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.
0:10.9	Is anybody buying this? I'm not. Let's talk about it.
0:14.6	Yeah, you better.
0:20.4	Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe today, Yeah, you better.
0:24.7	Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe.
0:28.4	Today we're talking about Gavin Newsome, and I got a bone to pick with Gavin Newsom, okay?
0:33.8	And I say that as a California resident myself, we're going to talk about our dear, dear governor, okay? He's going viral for a clip.
0:35.5	And I'm going to play the clip for you again so you can get it in its full context where he talks about being a 960 SAT and how he can't read and he doesn't
0:43.7	read speeches. Now, he's being called out online for saying this in what was deemed to be a
0:49.1	predominantly black crowd in Atlanta, Georgia. And people are calling this racist, saying that he's trying to sort of
0:54.9	play to black people. I have a little bit of pushback on that, but not in a way that gets me
1:00.9	off Gavin Newsom's neck. Okay? So let's watch the clip one more time. And let's see what we think
1:07.5	about this. I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. First of all, what a politician's like sentence. I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. Some aid wrote that and thought they ate. Okay, let's keep going. I'm like you. I'm no better than you, you know. He thinks he's Shakespeare. I'm a 960 SAT guy.
1:32.6	And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940.
1:40.7	But literally a 960 SAT guy. It's so funny that his way of trying to relate to the common man
1:47.9	goes all the way back to high school in his SAT score like nothing has happened to you since
1:52.2	that can have you relates to common people living in your country to your constituents except
1:58.1	your 960 SAT score which means in your just lovely background,
2:03.5	your superlative background, and we'll get to the superlatives in just a moment, you just happen
2:08.3	to be really shit at taking the SATs, and that's what's going to have you relates to the American
2:12.3	people. And there's a reason that that's the story, because there's no other way in which he can
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