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Walz Subjected Veterans, Teachers To Racially Segregated Programs As Minnesota Governor

By Robert Schmad of the Daily Caller News Foundation. Originally Published on September 23, 2024.
DCNFBy DCNFSeptember 24, 2024Updated:September 24, 20245 Comments2 Mins Read
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Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz’s Department of Education and Department of Veterans Affairs held programs segregated by race and sexuality during his tenure as Minnesota governor.

Under Walz, Minnesota’s Department of Veterans Affairs between 2022 and 2023 advertised a series of training sessions to racial minority veterans on how to address homelessness among those who had served in the armed forces, specifically focusing on veterans who identified as “BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and/or [a] woman,” according to materials first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Walz’s Department of Education, meanwhile, held “restorative justice” trainings in 2022, with one session explicitly barring white people from attending.

Straight white males could technically attend the trainings held by Walz’s Department of Veterans Affairs, but only if they were willing to serve as a “stakeholder or ally” to non-white LGBT veterans, according to the Free Beacon. The department paid the training’s attendees $50 an hour. (RELATED: Tim Walz’s Political Origin Story Is Reportedly Full Of Holes)

Walz’s Department of Education, meanwhile, created a “people of color affinity community” that was “reserved for people who personally identify as Black People, Indigenous People and People of Color,” the Free Beacon reported. White people were told that they “may attend other circle trainings.”

Walz is no stranger to incorporating racial grievances into his governance, signing a multi-billion dollar educational spending bill in 2023 that, among other things, introduced a requirement that school districts develop an “ethnic studies” curriculum.

Under the requirement, first graders must be able to “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.” High school students, meanwhile, are required to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” while being critical of “dominant European beauty standards.”

Additionally, Walz’s Department of Health used race to determine who would receive potentially life-saving treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, the department adopted a framework, which it later revised following backlash, that gave black people privileged access to monoclonal antibodies, a promising treatment for the virus that was in short supply at the time.

Under the system, a healthy 25-year-old African American would have been prioritized over a 55-year-old white person with hypertension or a 64-year-old who didn’t have “BIPOC status.”

The Harris campaign and the Minnesota governor’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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  1. Larry B . on September 24, 2024 2:12 PM

    I don’t know how else to put it .
    Tim Walz is an idiot .
    That is why Kamala picked him in the first place .
    A liar and an idiot .
    The “ perfect “ choice for democrats !

  2. Steve Harter on September 24, 2024 3:28 PM

    Comment ?
    Are you kidding ?
    It would just be another lie anyway .
    Tim Walz is THE REAL existential threat to our country .
    If this clown is elected VP we are going to be in a world of hurt .
    Send the guy back to Minnesota where he belongs,….they voted for him
    Let them keep him .
    Maybe put some condoms in the little girls’ bathrooms .

  3. sandy on September 24, 2024 9:34 PM

    Remember: VOTE THEM OUT!

  4. Neecee on September 25, 2024 3:46 PM

    Their goal is to divide us

  5. Robert M. on September 26, 2024 11:23 AM

    The “only “ person less qualified than Kamala Harris to be in the White House is Tim Walz .
    The THIRTY trips to China that he has made are worrisome to any reasonable voter .What is it that he loves so much about China ?
    Walz is a crazy left wing ideologue that has NO business in national politics.
    His wife is even crazier than he is . She bragged about opening her windows to smell the smoke from the Floyd riots . What’s that about ?
    Use your heads people , this guy is a nut .

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