Gavin Newsom, California’s golden-boy governor and likely 2028 White House hopeful,recently decided to “bond” with a black audience in Georgia.
Newsom proclaimed, “I’m not trying to impress you. 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 I’m not trying to offend anyone, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally, a 960 SAT guy. I cannot — you’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in.”
Nothing says “I get you” like assuming your audience bombed the SATs and cannot read particularly well.
This, of course, is only the most recent example from the standard left-wing playbook on how to relate to black people.
Take Joe Biden’s exchange in 2020with the radio host Charlamagne tha God[Lenard Larry McKelvey], “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
This was vintage Biden, the self-proclaimed arbiter of blackness, gatekeeping racial identity like a bouncer at a nightclub.
Or how aboutBiden’s gem in Iowa: “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids”?
Or Biden’sexplanation in 2007 about Barack Obama, whom he called “the first mainstream African- American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
There’s Bill Clinton, the “first black president.” In an interview with Black Entertainment Television,Clinton said, “African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.”
According to the book “Game Change,” about the 2008 presidential race, Clinton attacked Sen. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton’s rival, by telling Sen. Ted Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
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