Emhoff reflects on interracial marriage affair: without it ‘I wouldn’t be married to Kamala Harris’

Second mister Doug EmhoffDoug EmhoffEmhoff reflects on interracial marriage affair: without it ‘I wouldn’t be married to Kamala Harris’ Biden looks into chief empathy role Biden mourns 500,000 American lives lost to coronavirus MORE reflected on the “powerful” impact of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia legalizing interracial marriage, claiming he wouldn’t have been married to Vice President Harris without the decision.

Emhoff could see the historical court documents from the case during a recent visit to the National Archives.

“I have to see this. … As an attorney on this one, hold on, ”the second man, a lawyer who was also a partner at DLA Piper in Los Angeles until last year, said in a featured clip.

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“I’ve worked through hundreds and hundreds of cases as a lawyer and you know what’s going on in those decisions and how much hard work and you see the lawyers and the efforts right there in front of you and then I live the decision, “he continued.

“So it’s powerful. I know the way we got here was brutal and the history was brutal, and we experience it viscerally all the time. But I really do see it as a time of celebration to celebrate excellence, ”said Emhoff.

In images of the visit obtained by NowThis, Emhoff could also be seen looking at the 13th Amendment signed by President Abraham Lincoln as well as documents detailing payments made to a slave owner for slaves to work at the ” President’s House ”or the White House.

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

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

“But when you look around at what’s going on each day, you know 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 might help us better get to where we need to be, ”he added.

Harris became the first black American, Asian American and the first woman to serve as vice-president in January.