GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 5E
Robert Vinson Brannum
Commissioner 5E08
FOR IMMMEDIATE RELEASE
According to a news report, https://dcist.com/story/19/09/13/d-c-man-who-identified-as-a-neo-nazi-will-be-released-from-custody-plans-to-return-to-bloomingdale/, “Bloomingdale resident Jeffrey Raphael Clark, who has previously described himself as a Nazi, will be released from custody after pleading guilty to a federal gun charge and receiving a sentence of time served in court on Friday”.
Mr. Clark, has through his attorney asserts “…in court documents that his “detention at the D.C. Jail for the last 10 months has caused Mr. Clark to re-evaluate many of the choices he has made in his young life—especially those choices that brought him to the attention of law enforcement.”
I believe in the awesome power of redemption and the dominion spirit of forgiveness. Racism, bigotry and white supremacy have no home in Bloomingdale, Ward 5, the District of Columbia or America. If true and if the past period of confinement and reflection have presented Mr. Clark with a new understanding of the meaning of respect, a wider vision of diversity and the Bloomingdale Spirit; I welcome his new journey in his positive transformation of community outlook and blessings of life.
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“And I will not be silent…” - to injustice, racism, bigotry and white supremacy - “…as long as I am breathing.”
Robert Vinson Brannum
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner – 5E08
Former President, Bloomingdale Civic Association, Inc.
President Emeritus, DC Federation of Civic Associations, Inc.
Chairman, NAACP-DC Veterans Committee
Commissioner, DC Commission on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Board Member, DC Open Government Coalition, Inc.
Chairman Emeritus, 5th District Citizens’ Advisory Council, Inc.
Chairman Emeritus, Ward 5 Democratic Committee
Former Interim Chairman, DC Commission on National and Community Service
Former Board Member, North Capital Neighborhood Development Corporation, Inc.
Former Board Member, DC Crime Solvers, Inc.
Incorporatorand Founding Board Member, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Inc.
Founding Board Member, Veterans and Military Families for Progress, Inc.
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