Emhoff reflects on interracial marriage: without this ‘I would not be married to Kamala Harris’

Second lord Doug EmhoffDoug Emhoff Emhoff reflects on marriage between homes: without this ‘I would not be married to Kamala Harris’, Biden leans in the lead Biden mourns 500,000 American lives lost by coronavirus MORE Reflected on the ‘powerful’ impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loving against Virginia that legalizes interracial marriage, saying he would not have been married to Vice President Harris if it were not for the ruling.

Emhoff may have seen the historical court documents from the case during a recent visit to the National Archives.

“I have to see it. “Pretend to be a lawyer, hold on,” the second gentleman, a lawyer who until last year was also a partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Los Angeles, said in a clip of the moment.

‘You could not literally marry someone you loved for hundreds of years because of their race. I would not be married to Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisEmhoff reflects on interracial marriages: Without this ‘I would not be married to Kamala Harris’ WHO: Coronavirus dies worldwide last week with 20 percent Collins: Biden’s .9T coronavirus package gets no more Senate GOP votes but for that decision in the Supreme Court, ”said Emhoff, who has been married to Harris since 2014.

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“I have worked hundreds and hundreds of cases as a lawyer and you know what these decisions are and how much hard work you see, and you see the lawyers and the efforts here before you and then I live out the decision,” he continues. .

‘So it’s powerful. I know how we came here was cruel and history was cruel, and we experience it profoundly all the time. But I really consider it a time of celebration to celebrate excellence, ‘Emhoff said.

In the footage of the visit that NowThis obtained, Emhoff was also able to see how he signed the 13th amendment signed by President Abraham Lincoln, as well as documents in which payments are made to a slave owner for slaves to give to the ‘President’s House ‘, or the White House, to work. .

Emhoff said it was “really compelling” to “see the bill for the slaves who built the President’s House, the White House.”

“And you think now, we have a woman, a woman of color, Kamala Harris, who is vice president in the office, in the house built by slaves,” he said. “And so you can see where we were and you can also see how far we have come.”

“But if you look around every day, you know we need to do a lot more and a lot more. But studying history and knowing where we have been can help us get better at where we need to be, ‘he added.

In January, Harris became the first black American, Asian American, and the first woman to assume the vice presidency.