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“Senator, my wife and I are an interracial couple, so if that case were wrongly decided I would be in big trouble,” Tung said.

Remember, this movie came out in the mid-1980s when interracial relationships between Black men and white women weren’t usually foregrounded in action blockbusters.

Early in his career, Falwell gave a sermon in which he declared that integration “will destroy our race eventually,” warning that after school desegregation, legalized interracial marriage would be next.

In its early days, the Mann Act was used by federal prosecutors as a way to criminalise some forms of consensual activity, including interracial relationships.

And the reason for this is that that is the basic premise on which the legal defense of Jim Crow and bans on interracial marriage rested.