This year’s UNESCO Chair Oration was delivered by Race Discrimination Commissioner, Professor Tim Soutphommasane, who delivered a speech entitled ‘Middle Class Racism’.
“As a general principle we must be guided by the idea that it’s not enough to be non-racist, we’ve also got to be anti-racist … we must also be prepared to listen to the lived experience of those who experience racism. Too often those who have the courage to respond to prejudice are made to feel that they are the ones who have done wrong. We must not indulge the idea that responding to racism creates more division than the perpetration of racism.”