Second gentleman Doug Emhoff
Doug EmhoffBiden laments 500,000 American lives lost to the Biden coronavirus to order half the team’s flags to mark 500,000 deaths by Pelosi virus maintains a moment of silence as the US approaches 500,000 deaths by COVID-19 MORE reflected on the “powerful” impact of the historic Supreme Court ruling on Loving v. Virginia who legalized interracial marriage, saying he would not have married Vice President Harris had it not been for that decision.
Emhoff could have been viewing the court’s historical documents of the case on a recent visit to the National Archives.
“I have to see this. (…) Running away as a lawyer in this case, wait, ”said the second gentleman, a lawyer who was also a partner at the DLA Piper law firm in Los Angeles until last year, in a clip of the moment.
“For hundreds of years, you couldn’t literally marry someone you loved because of your race. I would not be married to Kamala Harris
Kamala HarrisCollins: Biden’s .9T coronavirus package will not have a Republican Party vote in the Senate. but because of that Supreme Court decision, ”said Emhoff, who has been married to Harris since 2014.
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“I worked on hundreds and hundreds of cases as a lawyer and you know what happens in those decisions and how much I work hard and you see the lawyers and the efforts right in front of you and so I’m living the decision,” he continued.
“So, it’s powerful. I know that how we got here was brutal and the story was brutal, and we experienced it viscerally all the time. But I really see it as a time of celebration to celebrate excellence, ”said Emhoff.
In the footage of the visit obtained by NowThis, Emhoff can also be seen seeing the 13th Amendment signed by President Abraham Lincoln, as well as documents detailing payments made to a slave owner for enslaved people to work in the “President’s House” or the White House .
Emhoff said it was “really attractive” to see “the bill for the slaves who built the President’s House, the White House”.
“And you’re thinking now that we have a woman of color, Kamala Harris, who is a vice president sitting in that office, in that house that was built by slaves,” he said. “And so that you can see where we were and also how far we’ve come.”
“But when you look around at what’s happening every day, you know that we have a lot more to do and a lot more work to do. But, by studying history and knowing where we have been, it can help us better get to where we need to be, ”he added.
Harris in January became the first black American, Asian American and the first woman to assume the vice presidency.