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The Unfortunate Truth in Gavin Newsom’s Gaffe Regarding the SATs
"You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy,” he said.
William Sullivan | March 12, 2026
Presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom has been taking time away from destroying my state that he governs to hit the 2028 campaign trail, and he made a bit of short-lived news with his stop in Atlanta to have a discussion with Mayor Andre Dickens and a crowd largely comprised of black attendees to promote his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry.
“I’m not trying to impress you,” he said, “I’m just trying to impress upon you … I’m like you, I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy,” and he continues by saying that he never reads his speeches because he “can’t read.”
It was an obviously offensive thing to say, and if there was a calculation in Newsom bringing this up, it must have been this -- Newsom wanted to present himself as academically mediocre and disadvantaged because he believes that black Americans, as a collective demographic, are academically mediocre and disadvantaged.
And, sadly, on neither point would anyone who has studied this subject for more than five minutes disagree. Black American youth are today disadvantaged, primarily because the explosive growth of the welfare state, implemented by Newsom’s central planning Democrat forebears like Lyndon B. Johnson dating back to the 1960s, has crippled them.
“The welfare state,” writes the late, great Walter E. Williams, “has done to black families what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do, and that is to destroy the black family.”
The practical result of this effort is on display all around us. The percentage of two-parent black households plummeted in the decades since the 1960s, as subsistence checks provided by daddy-government replaced fathers as the providers for their families.
The result has been that many........