Kimber Swings Back

It is my opinion if Reverend Kimber wants to weigh in on political issues pertaining to state and government then why doesn't he run for a political office instead of trying to always try to fashion himself as a political broker and mover shaker?

Reverend Kimber it's too bad that you can not put aside your own personal needs to look at the total picture of who Chief Esserman is or perhaps you probably already know and you are both cut from the same ideological cloth.

You and Chief Esserman have one thing definitely in common. That is you both of you will never know what it is really like to be a part of two of the oldest and proudest professions on the face of this earth in a police officer or fire fighter.

When I was active in sports and played the game we had names for individuals like you. We called them "Monday morning quarterbacks or lockeroom sniffers.". I'm being kind with the real name for the last identification.

So Reverend Kimber your endorsement of Chiief Esserman or the NHFD does not mean anything to the brave men and women who went through the process and training to have a badge pinned on their chest whether it be a police officer or firefighter.

Keep in mind being that you want to be Chief Essermans mouth piece or sponsor understand this, he knows that he can never tell any brother/sister police officer on the face of this great planet that he is a real police officer. How did we say this in college Reverend Kimber and you know this saying,, "Perpetrating the fraud".

Oh yeah one more thing as I would like to point out to the citizenry of the good City of New Haven.

Remember you have rights too if you are ever feeling threatened, intimidated, disorderly conduct acted upon you or a breach of peace is being acted upon you where you are feeling victimized. PLEASE call 911!

Having said that. If any citizen, owner of a business or a manager in the City of New Haven who is confronted by a Chief Dean Esserman type of character. I implore you to call the police. Chief Esserman, police officers or persons are above the law. They have to abide by laws too.

If Mayor Harp is not going to hold Chief Esserman accountable and responsible for his behavior then you as a taxpaying citizen surely can.

The good Reverend Kimber knows that no one is above the law being the righteous and humble man that he is in supporting his good friend Chief Dean Esserman.

I can already bet the house that I along with many other commenters will be right here again in about a month or so commenting on more egregious behavior by Chief Dean Esserman.

Boise Kimber is a weather vane. He Turns whichever way the wind may blow in HIS best interest, not the community's best interest.
We need a compass pointing in the right direction for the public good.
Boise Kimber is a thermometer. He rises and falls with the variation of the political temperatures that suit HIM best, not the community.
We need a thermostat to set a standard of consistency and integrity in leadership.
Kimber styles himself as a community leader, a political boss, a power broker who speaks truth to power, the spokesman of the Black community.
That is what he thinks, politicians think, the media thinks, but this is NOT what the Black community thinks.
He has his little church. He has his little group of clergy. He may intimidate the superintendent of schools and defend the police chief and think he has an open door to the mayor, but Black people in the Black community pay him little attention and know he does not speak for them.
The Black community has watched Kimber ever since he first entered this city and have followed his controversial career since that time in the political community and the faith community. We know him well. Too well.
We also know well the group of retired educators who collectively have taught tens of thousands of New Haven youth. Collectively they have hundreds of years of experience as educators. These people have spoken out against the superintendent because they sincerely believe something is wrong in our school system that is a detriment to the education of our young people. Their training, knowledge, experience and wisdom should never be dismissed and disrespected by the mayor, the superintendent or Boise Kimber. These people don't want any favors. They don't want any schools,promises, kick-backs, jobs or handouts from politicians. Those teachers and administrators want the best education possible for our kids, and put their reputations on the line to make their stand for change in leadership that they feel is necessary.

@ThomasPayne. I could not have said what you have said in your commentary any better! You eloquently stated the truth with diplomacy and accuracy.

I hope the readers really take the time to read the comments people post without prejudice because they are usually 80% right on. I read your comments when you respond and I usually pay attention to them because whoever you are you must be in the know.

Kimber claims allegiance to a group of ministers who made a big difference in American life through civil rights activism. He has brought Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton to New Haven, but these are not the ministers I meant when I referenced the civil rights movement. Kimber, Sharpton, and Jackson are in that breed of preacher, that make the leaders that made real sacrifices turn over in their graves. Had he been around in the movement, Blacks would still be in the back of the bus because he would have made a deal with the Bull Connors and George Wallaces of that time. He has sacrificed little and gotten more of his share of benefit from being the self-appointed spokesperson of the Black community. He is making a bad move here by opposing educators who were here while he was passing the plate in wherever he came from. He is what is wrong with leaders who suck up to power and get a few crumbs in the process. if he was so influential he would have more followers, but few people come to his church and it is just a matter of time before the tithes and offerings are not enough to keep in the style he is accustomed to. It is not too late Reverend. Repent and join those great ministers who spoke truth to power and worked to achieve justice for all. Can I get an amen Rev? Check him out on the internet, especially the Ricci case and his brief career as a funeral director.

Where do I begin?

I'm in total agreement with Mr. Kimber on a couple of fronts. 1. I agree that the mayor should never allow a committee to make the decision that the voters entrusted her to make. And 2. Hiring more cops of color.

Here's where I disagree with Mr. Kimber. 1. As has been said by others, how can Chief Esserman discipline an officer who displays negative behavior analogous to that which he himself has displayed? He can't. Therein lies a partial reason why he should no longer be chief. 2. Retired educators... "they haven't advanced an alternative plan for how to run the schools." What's the nature of such a statement? To the team of educators, being concerned caretakers of a system that you toiled in for years, is of in itself admirable. And you have the right to say anything you wish regarding the failures, notwithstanding the push back from Kimber and others. That said, it isn't incumbent upon these individuals to advance a plan, it's incumbent upon the superintendent and subsequently the board to coalesce around creating a plan.

To Mr. Kimber, people have been performing nefarious activity for years in Newhallvile. Now I ask you, what's your plan to stop that from happening? No, your plan.

For those of you who feel as though I'm being disrespectful by not using the word "Reverend" in front of Mr. Kimber's name, it's simply because in my view, no man is considered Reverend, but God.

Rev. K states" If I were mayor, I would never give my power to committees." Rev K, aren't you or weren't you on the Board of Fire Commissioners? Isn't that a committee? Last year as commissiner you wanted a firefighter to be terminated for using the "n" on facebook, but wait, you state you would never give power to committees. Weren't you trying to exercise some power by trying to get him fired?
What hypocrisy. You and Esserman are both one in the same. Also last year you tried to attend the weekly Compstat at 1 union but were told that it was being closed to the public. You threw a little tantrum and made a few calls and then you were escorted upstairs by an officer. Umm, sounds like an Esserman moment. Of course it was Esserman that allowed you to attend. Everyone else, including activist Barbara Fair, who questioned why you were getting special treatment, was turned away.

Esserman gives you special treatment because he thinks you can keep the blacks in New Haven in line and off his back. You do not speak for the black community. I hope the Mayor sees that you are a fraud. Who are you to come out and say Esserman should stay? Do u care that he insulted a 19yr old girl? I wonder what you would've done if that was your daughtee Rev. K? Would you still want Esserman to stay?

Mayor Harp, I implore you to look at the bigger picture here, the decision to keep Esseman should not be a poltical decision. The good citizens of New Haven and police officers deserve a leader that is respectful, encouraging and understanding. We can not have a dictator and wanna be police officer degrading and demeaning our citizens. Any boss on any other job would've been fired a long time a go. Why are you so afraid of making the right decision? If you keep him, you know it will happen again. Wake Up!!!

WELL well well I guess to quote MR KIMBER "If I were mayor, I would never give my power to committees," ..First lets start by saying that NOONE has elected you probably in part because you are an iron fisted want to be dictator. This city is not an empire to be ran. It is ran for the benifit of its residency. Not those who want to run it for their EGO or personal gain. Statistics show that even in the worst places crime has lessened over the past four years ,further it is not a direct tribute to ESSERMAN himself seeing as he has ZERO clue or experience of what doing police work consists of . The Adminstration of NHPD for the past ten years has been filled with ranking LEO who have experience in crime deterrence,investigations, public service etc..NON of which Esserman has ever had. so it it thru their leadership and those they have trained, mentored and guided that productivity has been accomplished. If there is no RESPECT, minimaal decency and no support thenhe is a figure head that is a minimal going to corrupt the body. How is he to lead if he cant mind himself. If an officer behaved anything like he has repeatedly that officer would no longer be employed. That officers career with the city of new haven would have been terminated and you would have been one of the first and loudest on a pulpit yelling for it so you are as much a part of the hypocritical problem as he is . The difference is we are not paying you nor have we elected you so enough said.

As a women of color I find the whole Black verse White thing is really getting old. When are we as the black community going to stop blaming the white people for all of our problems? We need to move on from the past and move forward to better and brighter futures. We need to STOP teaching our children that they can not get what they want in life because of their skin color. This is exactly what we are teaching them every time we blame the white folks for not having enough people of color working in a particular job field, or when we didn't get a particular promotion, etc.

Magentschoolmom- "that they can not get what they want in life because of their skin color" ?? Really? Who's teaching that?? You travel in some odd circles......

The Right Reverend Boise "Bossy" Kimber is waxing eloquent on the public safety system and education and this speaks to his expertise in just about everything. Add to this, his direct connection to the divine and we are "blessed" to have this man in our community. In fact, every community should have a Kimber to remind young people interested in the clergy what NOT to do. Thou shalt not taketh the money of the elderly. Thou shalt not race bait. Thou shalt driveth in thine own lane. Thou shalt thinketh before speaking. Thou shalt honor thine vows and obey God's commandments. Thou shalt handle thine own business before sticking thine nose in the business of others. Thou shalt deal with the beam in thine own eye before criticizing the splinter in another's. Thou shall keepeth clean thine own HOUSE and not undermine the righteous efforts of thy brothers and sisters in the FIELD. I am sure you know what I am saying here by channeling Malcolm X.

All our boards and committees are indulging this man who is an embarrassment to the very Black retired educators he is criticizing. Gibson, Kinder, Chalmers, Turner, Babb, Moore and the others have more grace and dignity in their pinky toes than he has in his body. They all have been solid contributors to the quality of New Haven life and never bowed or submitted to abject power. Jenkins is right in his comments as or the others in this article who see through his self-serving shenanigans. Black and White are not, nor ever have been, the issue. Life has always been about right and wrong. No race of people have a monopoly on righteousness or baseness. In fact, there is only one race. It is called the human race, like it or not we are all God's children and need to learn to live together. Bossy, I am sure you can find this somewhere in the Scripture. Go and find it and conduct yourself accordingly. Stop grandstanding and look in the mirror. It is not too late for you to benefit from His Amazing Grace. The clock is ticking.

posted by: MagnetSchoolMom on August 5, 2016 9:33am

As a women of color I find the whole Black verse White thing is really getting old. When are we as the black community going to stop blaming the white people for all of our problems.

Give me a break.How does one get over their history? You sound like you are part of the Black Elite and the Black Boule. Your statement couldn't be farther from the truth In fact, if you pay attention to news coverage, there's a list of big and small issues proving that American racism is far from being a thing of the past.

We need to move on from the past and move forward to better and brighter futures.

Some of us need to go back to the past to make it to the future.Case and point. If we go back to our history of the past,It would tell us who we are. Also do you know what we moved on to? more subjugation, laws, terrorism and more abuse.

We need to STOP teaching our children that they can not get what they want in life because of their skin color. This is exactly what we are teaching them every time we blame the white folks for not having enough people of color working in a particular job field, or when we didn't get a particular promotion, etc.

We also need to teach our children how to deal with racism.In fact all of my children know that they should be very cautious of Black people who have the same psychology as the people who enslaved black africans.

Part One.

part two.

we blame the white folks for not having enough people of color working in a particular job field, or when we didn't get a particular promotion, etc.

Look at what we have to do just to get on the jobs.

Whitening' the Résumé

Yvonne Orr, also searching for work in Chicago, removed her bachelor's degree from Hampton University, a historically black college, leaving just her master's degree from Spertus Institute, a Jewish school. She also deleted a position she once held at an African-American nonprofit organization and rearranged her references so the first people listed were not black.

Black students who graduate from institutions like Harvard University are about as likely to get a well-paid job as a white graduate from a less-selective state university, new study finds.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/06/elite-college-degrees-give-black-graduates-little-advantage-job-market

Part I
I just listen to the audio version of this article. Bosie Kimber refers to New Haven as "his community". Is he self-appointed to be in charge and speak for us? Mr. Bass please do a survey asking "our community" if we consider Bosie Kimber our leader and spokesperson. He said no one has come to him with concerns. Why would they? Who is he? I think we all would be interested in the results of a survey.

Concerning Chief Esserman: we all have stressors in our lives. Where was Bosie Kimber when all of the Blacks in Mayor Harp's administration were being fired? I am sure they all had stressors. One in particular had just lost her father, her father-in-law and had a miscarriage. How much was her stress taken into consideration? Again, where were Kimber and the NAACP? With Kimber, everything is Black or White. His argument with you, Mr. Bass, was that we do not have enough Blacks on the police force. If he was in danger and a White officer who does not live here in our city came to his aid, I wonder would he refuse the officer's help. He is such a contradiction for he is now standing up to protect two White men in Chief Esserman and Superintendent Harries. At one point in this audio interview, you said this is not about you Bosie Kimber, but yes it is. It is all about favors that he can PERSONALLY get from the Chief and the Superintendent. Herein lies the reason for his support.

Part II
He said that your people do not cover him (The Independent). Everything is about him, not the important issues up for discussion. He said that he is not an educator, so why does he go into the Board of Ed Meetings and try to control everything? He was dismissal of the Retired Educators who were successfully responsible for the education of thousands of our children. Those educator personifies what an exemplary education should be. Our educational system was better because of those educators that Bosie Kimber tried to dismiss.

If Bosie Kimber was as knowledgeable as he is self proclaim to be, I would think that he would be in charge of a Mega Church not a Mini Church. For my part, I would ask that Bosie Kimber stays in his lane and leave the Education Department, the Fire Department, the Police Department and all of the other department in our city up to the professionals of those departments.

Boise Kimber is so out of touch with New Haven. He asked the question of how can hispanics out score African Americans in reading when most hispanics don't speak english? Mr. Kimber doesn't realize that hispanic children are first and second generation english speaking children. This is another example of his racist world view.

Mr. Kimber has no appreciation for the police officers that protect this city. He doesn't consider the lives of the police that they put on the line everyday as an investment. He also doesn't realize that although you may hire police from the community they eventually move out of the city, many move as far as Windsor and commute back to the city.

Mr. Kimber needs to stick the the bible, and leave the city to people who know the city.