Most people don’t realize how deeply language shapes our society. Even fewer understand the language that built the U.S., yet its effects are all around us today. To challenge it, we must first understand it, speak clearly against it, and create a new language for healing.

Structural Racial Expulsion in Minnesota (SREM) is a systemic condition in which Black Minnesotans are persistently marginalized across institutions through policies that appear neutral but function to displace, discredit, and exclude.

The Inverted Justice Doctrine (IJD) describes how legal systems, operating within Structural Racial Expulsion in Minnesota (SREM), invert their purpose—targeting and discrediting Black victims instead of protecting them. This mechanism preserves institutional power and racial hierarchies while projecting an illusion of justice.