Second knight Doug Emhoff
Doug EmhoffBiden mourns 500,000 U.S. lives lost by Biden coronavirus for sorting flags in the middle of the squad to mark 500,000 deaths from virus Pelosi remains silent as the United States approaches 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 MORE he reflected on the “powerful” impact of the Supreme Court decision in Loving against Virginia legalizing interracial marriage, saying he would not have married Vice President Harris had it not been for that decision.
Emhoff could be looking at the historical judicial documentation of the case on a recent visit to the National Archives.
“I have to see this. … Becoming a lawyer, hold on, ”said in a clip of the moment the second gentleman, a lawyer who until last year was also a partner in the law firm DLA Piper in Los Angeles.
“For hundreds of years, you couldn’t literally marry someone you loved because of their race. I would not be married to Kamala Harris
Kamala HarrisCollins: Biden’s .9T coronavirus package will not get votes from the Senate GOP The House panel advances Biden’s COVID-19 aid bill. Biden’s immigration bill could destroy most of it, but Democrats have a chance to do the right thing but by that Supreme Court decision, “said Emhoff, who has been married to Harris since 2014.
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“I’ve worked in hundreds and hundreds of cases as a lawyer and you know what happens with those decisions and what work they put in, and you see the lawyers and the efforts ahead and then I’m living the decision,” he continued.
“It simply came to our notice then. I know we’ve come this far it’s been brutal and the story has been brutal, and we live it viscerally all the time. But I really see it as a time to celebrate excellence, ”said Emhoff.
In images from NowThis’ visit, Emhoff could also be seen watching 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 compelling” to see “the bill of slaves who built the President’s House, the White House.”
“And you’re thinking we now have a woman of color, Kamala Harris, who is a vice president sitting in that office, in that house 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 at what goes on around you every day, you know we have a lot more to do and a lot more work to do. But studying history and knowing where we have been can help us get better 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.