I am a child of the 1960s, born and bred in this city and raised to fight against injustices that affected all minorities in all arenas: law enforcement, education, employment, housing, governance. Our battles against racism lifted all boats and we didn’t mind it. But now, Latinos are doing things to Black people that we didn’t let White people do to us back in the day and nobody’s doing anything to stop ’em. I speak today of another in a continuous series of overt, in-your-face, evil discriminatory acts perpetrated against African-Americans by that racist cesspool known as the Los Angeles Unified School District.

You remember how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (he of the “Blackless” staff and significant appointees about which I’ve railed for years) and his handmaiden, LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia, made the Black superintendent, Adm. David Brewer, hire Ramon Cortines as his assistant and then forced Brewer out of the top job and put Cortines in it? You remember other racist acts of the school district, such as conducting summer school for Spanish-speaking children only and doling out public schools to every ethnic group except Blacks to be operated as they see fit? Comes now a new atrocity: Villaraigosa, Garcia, Cortines and someone named Dale Vigil removed a highly qualified, much loved and supported Black woman, Suzanne Blake, last week as principal of the year-old arts high school and replaced her with someone named Luis Lopez.

This is just awful. All these LAUSD Latinos gushed with pride and praise when they hired Blake last year. Now suddenly she’s a piece of trash! Blake worked like a dog to get that school opened and has gained the incredible support of the arts community and parents, 50 of whom picketed the district’s headquarters Monday to demand her return. Several teachers have already transferred out of the school, also in protest. Garcia began bad-mouthing Blake shortly after the school opened, faulting her for the fact that the school was expected to get 70 percent of its enrollment from its immediate area, but so far it has a neighborhood enrollment of only (!) 60 percent.

Hey, the school is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A.! And who lives around there? Latinos. So, is this a public arts school which only Latinos can attend? So, Blake should be removed because 40 percent of the students live in other parts of the city where their parents are paying high taxes for this thing? This is wrong and racist. And so is this:

Simi Coffee, a Black woman who was principal of Rosa Parks Elementary School in Lynwood for seven years, was removed from her post in January and left in limbo until she was finally demoted to a classroom teacher on June 22 and she was never given any reason why! “I’ve been asking, but no one will tell me,” Coffee said. The removed principal said the bad news came from Donald Balfour, Lynwood’s assistant superintendent in charge of human resources. “I asked him why he was treating me this way and he said, ‘I did what I was told to do.’” Who told him what to do? I tried to contact Balfour and he refused to talk to me or to return my call. According to the school district’s website, Coffee’s Rosa Parks School had the third highest student proficiency rating of all the district’s 20 public schools at the time she was removed. Despicable!

The Lynwood school board is composed of Latinos. (Back in my day, that school board was all-White and we fought like hell to get Blacks and Latinos on it!) In the absence of due process, I can only conclude that Coffee is being treated like a dog because she’s Black. The irony of her former school’s name is not lost on me, and I am rapidly becoming an adherent of that old bugaboo, “separate but equal education,” as I am loathe to having my property tax dollars go to racist pond scum who mistreat my people. I didn’t like it in the ’60s, and I don’t like it now.

THAT WAS QUICK! — My lament about the absence of Black boys and girls in the LAPD’s Cadet Program was addressed Sunday at Faithful Central Bible Church when Bishop Kenneth Ulmer devoted a portion of his service to presentations by LAPD officers Noum Ware and Shannon Enox and 17-year-old Cadet Cmdr. Isaiah Brown about the benefits of the program. The three emissaries manned a booth in the church courtyard from which they provided information, assistance and encouragement about becoming police cadets to the mega-congregation’s youths. That’s what I’m talking about.

ANOTHER RUNNER? — I heard last week that the Rev. Eric Lee, president of SCLC, is seriously leaning toward entering next year’s race for 8th District city councilman. I heard that Lee was initially interested in running against school board member Marguerite LaMotte, but has now become convinced that taking out the incumbent councilman is of far more urgency for the well being of the greatest concentration of the city’s African-American residents. Like candidate Forescee Hogan-Rowles, Lee fits the theoretical profile of a potential winner and I think he should go for it. The more the merrier.

DATEBOOK — Great Beginnings for Black Babies will host a State of the Black Child symposium Friday beginning at 9 a.m. at the California Endowment facilities, 1000 N. Alameda St. The event will feature a wide array of presenters pertinent to the state of the Black child, his/her family and community. Free workshops will be offered. Breakfast and lunch will be available and the symposium will end with  a reception. Information: (323) 789-7955.

Assemblyman Mike Davis is hosting a town hall meeting on the California budget Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in the Wallis Annenberg Building in Exposition Park. … The California Sneaker Museum will present an exhibit entitled “The Evolution of the Sneaker” Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. over at USC’s Davidson Conference Center. A lot of sneakers worn by a lot of famous athletes will be on display. Information: (213) 507-5263.

AH, CHURCHES! — You remember Brenda LaMothe, the woman who filed suit against First AME Church alleging that its pastor, the Rev. John Hunter, convinced her to engage in a long-term, cross-country sexual relationship with him (which must have been consensual, since she never accused him of rape — just of being an extremely effective sweet talker.)? Well, I heard this week from one of my most reliable sources that the church offered to pay LaMothe a huge sum of money to take her suit and go away. She rejected the money, insisting that she wants to go to court and tell the public what happened between her and Hunter — like we, the public, care!!

This woman had a chance to get well and she threw it away. Doesn’t she know that a tale of sex between consenting adults — married or not, preacher or not — is boring? Hell, we in the Catholic church are still trying to get our mind around priests having sex with little boys! This woman didn’t even get pregnant and stalked and called all of the dirty names like the Rev. Joel Anthony Ward’s paramour did. So, let’s see: LaMothe claims she had sex with the man she wanted, anytime she wanted, anywhere she wanted, for as long as she wanted and the church offered her a bunch of money to shut up and go away and she said “No. I want to tell the world about it!” Is everybody crazy except me?!