Peter Hasson writes for the Washington Free Beacon about another disturbing element of Tim Walz’s tenure as Minnesota governor.

Vice President Kamala Harris says her running mate, Tim Walz, is going to help her “unify this country.” As governor of Minnesota, however, Walz explicitly divided people, holding training sessions for teachers and military veterans that were segregated by race, the Washington Free Beacon found.

In 2022, for example, Walz’s Department of Education held restorative justice “trainings and sessions” for teachers and other school officials. Participants were explicitly divided by race, with the agency establishing a “People of Color Affinity Community” for “people who personally identify as Black People, Indigenous People and People of Color.” The agency advised “White Allies” to “attend other circle trainings.”

Between September 2022 and June 2023, meanwhile, Walz’s Department of Veterans Affairs held a series of training sessions advertised to non-white veterans as part of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Ending Veterans Homelessness Work Group. A flier for the sessions said the group was created for homeless veterans who “identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and/or Woman.” A straight white male veteran could attend—but only if he were doing so as a “stakeholder or ally” to non-white, non-straight, or female veterans. Participants were paid $50 an hour, according to the flier.

Walz’s embrace of racially divided programming is at odds with the Harris campaign’s “unity” message. It also contradicts Walz’s purported image as a rural, everyday Midwestern dad. Vogue has called Walz a “genuinely nice guy” who is “overflowing with Midwestern-dad energy,” while the Washington Post touts his “Midwestern dad vibe.”But Walz’s administration—particularly its Department of Education—operated more in line with America’s deep-blue coastal states than with the nation’s heartland.

Under Walz, Minnesota enacted ethnic study curriculum requirements that call on fourth-graders to “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.” His segregated teacher trainings advanced similar themes.