Ouseley, 73, is quitting his role in the days after a series of high-profile incidents, including a banana skin being thrown at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang earlier this season.
Lord Ouseley's revelation in The Times comes on the back of reports claiming discrimination in English football has increased for a sixth year in a row.
Kick It Out claim discriminatory incidents have gone up by a shocking 11 per cent since last year – with 520 noted claims, over half of which were established to be racial in nature.
That was compared to 469 for the 2017-18 season and 402 the season before, with 2012-13 seeing a relatively small total of 77.
Football was dragged back into the mire again on Saturday night after a cluster of Chelsea fans were filmed screaming obscenities at Manchester City star Sterling.
Reports claimed one fan in particular at Stamford Bridge called the England winger a "f***ing black c**t".
However the fan – 60-year-old Colin Wing – claims he was calling him a "Manc c**t".
The Blues supporter went on to say he has lost his job and his season ticket as a result of the altercation this weekend.
All the recent drama has caused Ouseley to quit the organisation he founded 25 years ago.
Earlier this year, he recalled Kick It Out's beginnings, saying: "I approached all 92 clubs in the EFL and the newly-formed Premier League to ask them to join in a campaign to tackle the worst excesses of racial abuse, harassment and violence in football.
"The PFA was quick to join with the Commission for Racial Equality and the Football Trust to co-sponsor the project.
"With more than 50 clubs quickly signing up, the campaign was launched on 12 August 1993, with Gordon Taylor, Richard Faulkner and former professional footballers Paul Elliott and John Fashanu.
"Four years later, we became Kick It Out to reflect our work tackling all forms of discrimination in football."
Meanwhile Paul Canoville, who was Chelsea's first black player, is worried racism in football is coming back in a big way – having never fully gone away.
Canoville told the Independent: "It's coming back. To be honest, I didn't expect it like that but it's creeping back into the game.
"[It's] not acceptable at all. It's frightening. Why is it happening again?
“We're talking about hate crime coming back here and the energy from it. We’ve got to look at this, we really do.
"It doesn't just give clubs a big name, it gives the country a bad name – this is how I see it.”
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