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Rep. Wesley Hunt posted this on X: "Let me say this clearly.Gavin Newsom stood in front of a room full of Black voters and tried to say, “I’m like you… I had a 960 SAT.”No, Gavin.You’re not like me.I studied my butt off to get where I am.Under no circumstances are you going to belittle us by implying that all Black people have a 960 SAT and can barely read. That’s not empathy. That’s insult disguised as relatability.I had parents who believed in education.We had a sign in our house that said:“Jesus + Education = Success.”And we meant it.There’s a reason I earned three master’s degrees in four years from Cornell.My brother graduated from Harvard Business School.My sister earned her master’s in Applied Mathematics and taught at West Point while my brother and I were cadets.And yes, we were Black the entire time we were doing it.So when you suggest I “can’t read” or reduce us to a test score, what you’re really saying is that you think we’re all the same. That we’re a monolith. That this is how you see us.That is how the Democrat party sees us.I remember Hillary Clinton carrying hot sauce in her purse.I remember Joe Biden saying, “If you don’t vote for me, then you ain’t Black.”I remember Kathy Hochul claiming Black kids don’t even know what a computer is.We have an opportunity as a party, and as a country to elevate voices that the Democrat party pretends doesn’t exist - utterly destroying the race narratives they use as political strategy. It’s why I’m here.We do exist, and we reject the bigotry of the Left."