City Councilman Bernard Parks has done it again. He has taken a position guaranteed to outrage his predominantly minority South Los Angeles constituency, the minority residents throughout this — a minority majority — city, and non-minority people of goodwill and long memories everywhere: He presented a motion in City Council last week to have the new Police Administration Building, whose construction is nearing completion and is expected to open in November, continue to bear the name Parker Center. To all of you Black and Brown people who were alive and well and living in Los Angeles during the years when the late William H. Parker was chief of the LAPD, I’ll just pause and let that revolting notion sink into your brain.

Chief Parker was a racist pig who led a force of brutal cops that targeted and terrorized the African-American and Latino communities throughout this city. Back in the Parker years, we didn’t have a gang problem in our neighborhoods, we had a police problem. Parker called Black people “nigras.” He’d say things like: “We must contain the nigras” and “the nigras this and the nigras that,” and he said the 1965 Watts riots, which I covered in award-winning fashion, were caused by the “communists inciting the nigras.”

Parker had an even lower opinion of Latinos. While he said weak-minded nigras misbehave because they are led astray by White communists, he said Latinos break the law because they are genetically disposed to do so. I remember during one particular period when we were busy hating him real hard, Parker said something to this effect: Mexicans have to be constantly watched by the police because they are from wild tribes in the inner mountainous region of Mexico, and I don’t think you can throw the genes out of the equation when you talk about the behavior patterns of people. Ugh!

Parker created a bunker mentality in the city. He was hell on Blacks and Browns, but White people loved him and they named that downtown police building in his honor after he died in 1966. We Blacks and Browns never called it Parker Center, as we refused to let that abominable name form in our mouths. We’ve always called it “The Glass House.”

Now, The Glass House is being replaced and Councilman Parks wants to maintain the name Parker Center “in keeping with the traditional name of our police headquarters and in order to reduce costs and assure continuity,” according to the words of his motion. I say tradition, costs and continuity be damned! Latinos and Blacks comprise the majority of residents of this city now and our tradition viz a viz the LAPD is not worth keeping, and the continuity has been shattered, thank God, by a new chief, a new force, new rules, new attitudes and a newfound respect (sometimes bordering on affection) by us for the men and women in blue (or blue-black, because it looks like black, to me). The new building needs a new name that does not harken back to the bad old days, but rather heralds the good new days we are experiencing now.

If the building is to be named for a person, then it should be named Bratton Center in honor of Chief William Bratton, who ushered in the new era of humane policing by officers who now better reflect our population, and whose work has succeeded in reducing crime. Unlike Parker, Bratton has shown the LAPD does not have to be abusive to be effective, and I think that’s an extremely huge deal, worthy of having a building named for him. Of course we believe the only reason Parks jumped out there and introduced his motion was to short circuit any attempt to name the building for Bratton, whom he hates like we hate Parker.

We have come to know Parks by now and we know what makes him tick. If there are others on the City Council who don’t want it named for Bratton, then it should be named the Police Administration Building, period. If Parks’ motion passes and the building is named for Parker, then they might as well name the thing for Simon Legree and be done with it.

(I think we also should reconsider Pershing Square. Is it appropriate for us to honor a man who made his bones by slaughtering Native Americans, Mexicans and Filipinos?)

MAXINE. MAXINE. — I received copies of statements and letters Rep. Maxine Waters released during the week to answer questions as to her role in a meeting last year between the Treasury Department and executives of OneUnited Bank, a Boston-based Black-owned bank with which she and her husband have financial ties. Following that meeting, the government gave OneUnited Bank $12 million in bailout money.

Waters said in a statement that she set up the meeting at the request of the National Bankers Association, a Washington-based organization that represents minority banks. She released a couple of letters from Robert P. Cooper, the association’s incoming chairman in which he requests a meeting with treasury officials. Nowhere in his letters does Cooper identify himself as a senior executive of OneUnited Bank. Now the association is hopping mad about Cooper’s and Waters’ gambit and is investigating how the National Bankers Association’s letterhead and muscle came to be used for the benefit of OneUnited.

Michael A. Grant, president and former board chairman of the association, said Cooper is the newly elected incoming chairman slated to take office this spring and is, therefore, not empowered to act for the organization before then. He said Cooper never told the association’s top officers about his appeal to Waters and Treasury about setting up a meeting or about the special request OneUnited made for financial assistance. “It was absolutely inappropriate for those letters to go out without the chairman knowing and the president knowing,” Grant told the New York Times.

So, this thing is exactly as it looks: Using her political influence, Maxine Waters arranged a meeting with Treasury Department officials so the senior executive of OneUnited Bank, a financial institution in which her husband owns from $250,000 to $500,000 in stock, could solicit money.

THIS AND THAT — Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas appointed his senior deputy, Daniel A. Rosenfeld, to serve as his alternate on the Exposition Metro Line Light Rail Construction Authority. … Next month’s election in Inglewood is generating a lot of discussion among residents for a change. The Ladera Heights Civic Association will host a candidates night Thursday at 7 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church to hear what the candidates have to say about themselves, and the 78th Place Block Club Association will hold a candidates forum Friday at 7 p.m. at the Inglewood Police Community Center, 2001 W. Manchester Blvd. … A bunch of men in Inglewood, most of whom are living vicariously through our new president, are chagrined and insulted to have found old campaign literature in which school board member Arnold Butler supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. Forsooth!

Rep. Diane Watson has endorsed Assemblyman Curren Price for the 26th Senate District seat, which will be settled in a special election Tuesday. Corri Tate Ravare, a senior staff member at Inner City Education Foundation public schools, which operates 13 charter schools in South L.A., is the first Black woman to be appointed to the California Advisory Commission on Charter Schools. … Jan Pye, daughter of Brad Pye Jr. (and Eunice Pye), is being asked to fill a vacant seat on the Desert Hot Springs City Council — again. Several years go, Jan filled the unexpired term of a council member who resigned, and she’s being asked to do it again. In soliciting her council participation, officials sent her an e-mail stating: “At this time there seems to be no other potential nominee that can match your qualifications.” That’s deep.

AND FINALLY — Those of you planning to go to Renee Dorn’s fundraiser at Hollywood Park tonight, don’t go. It’s over. You and I missed it. It was held last Thursday and I made a mistake in reporting last week that it would be held tonight. I hate when that happens.