Clinton The Unknown

About the Book

This is about an ordinary young country girl—a slice of her life—born in the fabled Sleepy Hollow, NY, of an interracial family with Christian roots in the height of the nations civil unrest during the “new” Civil Rights era on September 14, 1957.  The extraordinary was how a beloved president who commanded the great Civil War for those poor invisible constituents—the Negro slave—like Miss Mary Freeman (“Gun touting Mary”, its rumored), Abe Lincoln was vividly described and reminisced about several times a year during her visits to her Dutch & Native grandmother’s house, and her fireside chats with Miss Freeman the woman her grandmother had taken in to care for.  Miss Mary as was natural helped take care of grandma and her household.  And, it tells the reader how both these amazing women molded her life.  Valerie’s daydreaming in school about a faraway mountaintop she discovered after her famous third letter to the president in spring 1999 was likely Monticello—the plantation of our country’s third president Thomas Jefferson.  The “silhouette man” reoccurring dream she’d had since childhood was replaced in an unusual twist and dream with the 42^nd president William Jefferson Clinton!  Dismissing this unbelievable scene she would unveil bends, billowing streams and twists and turns all leading back to the president and their ties to Monticello.  The nagging and prodding dream ceased.  Truths about her uncanny lifelong ties to three of our nation’s greatest U.S. presidents, her voracious interracial activism and how it changed everything in 1999 to her letters to her beloved President Bill Clinton wasn’t a plethora of mistakes or coincidences, but a fascinating mystery unfolding right before their eyes as the president became more trusting of her and befriended her only it had to be in secrecy.  Now you decide.

Currently, she’s been developing a group for interracial women leaders in politics titled Interracial Women’s Political Consortium 2000:  its had several successes to date; namely the Proclamations drafted in two states—New Jersey, *New York, Arkansas and *California, named for heroine’s of the modern day multiracial movement, in celebration of their leadership roles and their families, titled Interracial Family Day, held on September 28^th.  *Unofficial

About the Author

Ms. Wilkins-Godbee attended Marist College and completed her equiv. BA in Liberal Arts & FDR Polices in the Welfare state after transferring to Mercy College and SUNY at Albany.  She studied theology and received her Masters in Divinity with IBTS.  She’s also a former social welfare examiner with Westchester County—NY.  She resigned after “burn out” due to the failed policies to aid the disenfranchised.  This led her to the missionary work to the U.S. which lasted nearly a decade.  After her divorce she reached out to the decades old modern-day interracial movement with A Place For Us.  In turn, they sought her out for more responsibilities—post Jungle Fever—as they were thrust into the spotlight in the early ‘90’s.  She freelanced with Interrace Magazine, of Upstate NY, and by the end of 1991 she was solicited to write for New People’s Journal and became their first-staff writer!  The publisher, a journalist major, was surprised to learn that Valerie had no formal education in journalism.  She later relocated to Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, for 2 years, and wrote briefly with the Brooklyn Spectator:  she also started her own magazine Harmony People which debuted in January 1993.  Ms. Wilkins has created two groups Multiethnic Women for Media Fairness, who made major strides in commercials depicting interracial couples i.e. IKEA and in daytime T.V.; also her latest venture is with Interracial Women’s Political Consortium 2000.  Their successes to date are they’ve gotten two governors (former Mayor then Governor Jim Mc Greevey and Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas), to draft Proclamations in honor of those heroines in leadership and for their thriving families in NJ, *NY, *CA and AR., which inaugurated on September 28, 2001 in NJ and then in AR in 2005. 

*unofficially celebrated.