Michelle Obama not only said Friday she won’t be running for president because Americans “aren’t ready for a woman president,” she also implied they weren’t ready for her in the White House as a black First Lady.

Obama cited Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in 2024 as her evidence of the country’s sexism, saying Americans have “a lot of growing up to do.”

“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” she told an audience at Brooklyn Academy of Music while promoting her new book, The Look. “That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.”

“You know, we’ve got a lot of growing up to do,” she continued. “And there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, an

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