Article continues below advertisementGavin Newsom found himself in hot water for telling a room of Black people that he's just "like" them, explaining he did poorly on the SAT and struggles with reading. "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," the California governor declared during a book tour stop in Atlanta, Ga., on Sunday, February 22. "I'm literally a 960 SAT guy. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.