Historical Overview

  The Institute For "Interracial" Harmony, Incorporated, has been fighting racism/colorism as a 501 c (3) not -for -profit charitable New York City organization for 20 years.

"Prejudice Is Learned:It Can Be Unlearned" is our Motto, reflective of our sustained campaign to prevent, counteract and heal pervasive institutionalized racism/colorism which continues to bb erode the fabric of our society and causes individuals to actually lose their lives (especially with the racist/colorist death penalty).   For America, and, for that matter, the world, to become more effective in dealing with humanity, the healing we do on a local level must be expanded to embrace everyone.  Carol Taylor, President and Founder of The Institute For "Interracial" Harmony, Incorporated invented the concept of racism/colorism-testing (including the very term "colorism") with the Racism/Colorism Quotient Test, which Dr. Mari Saunders, Ph.D. then developed.  We have also constructed the Racism/Colorism Quotient Test Program with Follow-up Discussion (in a non-threatening atmosphere) and have administered it to members of the public, classes of students, a college President, the Director of a Sociology Department, New York State Supreme Court judges, a Human Rights Commission, MultiCultural Advisory Committees (See our AllColor Report 2000), newspapers, including The Village Voice 1992 - where fully one third of the (international) 4000  liberal-readership respondents were found to be dysfunctional in their responses to color and cultural differences.  Our role has been, and continues to be, spearheading our attempts to promote consciousness-raising about the need for prevention of color discrimination and the promotion of healing pathological responses to color and cultural differences. 

  Long before Carol Taylor became the First Black U.S. Flight Attendant, breaking the color barrier of U.S. airlines, she saw the need for social change with respect to valuing the content of a person's character and respecting the form in which that character is cloaked.

  We continue to build (with out-of-pocket personal monies and in spare time) The Institute For "Interracial" Harmony, Inc. (the quotation marks are used because there is only one race - the human one - and there is no 's' at the end of the word 'race,' so there is no meaning to words such as "interracial," "bi-racial," "trans-racial," "multi-racial,"{did you see that category in the new Census?} "people of different races," or "out of his/her race!")  We further developed the concept of testing individuals in non-threatening arenas (R/CQT) as a catalytic tool to, as Law Professor Dr. Lani Guinier has said, "...put the issue of racism(colorism) on the front burner in America to be able to deal with it in a forthright manner."

  Our major challenge is communicating the dire need for our nation to end the epidemic denial of the deleterious effects of racism/colorism (like 'racial' - we call it 'color'-profiling) and conveying the fact that our Racism/Colorism Quotient Test Program (with follow-up counseling) is a compelling solution to the problem which affects every area of people activity.

  A book, detailing our work, will be published soon and The Racism/Colorism Quotient Test is now available to be taken, scored and evaluated on the Internet.  Finally, we must ensure that every school, education organization, political and social group, can recognize how its individuals, through no fault of their own, have been conditioned by an institutionally racist/colorist society.  Our proven methodology for introducing positive change in their lives is now readily available so that we can expand the healing, help to remove the 'blame' syndrome and prevent people from losing their lives and their jobs, (alcoholics can no longer be fired if they accept counseling)) by encouraging corporations to offer our R/CQT Program (for dysfunctional responses to color and cultural differences) instead of costly dismissals.

Carol Taylor