My new book will be controversial. I want to get Greg Abbott as outside reader. Will he have the time? Can he read hard words?

 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued an executive order calling on state education officials to review the books available to students for “pornography and other obscene content.” Abbott indicated before the order that such content needed to be examined and removed if it was found. He reportedly did not specify what the “obscene content” standard for books should be.

BUT WILL HE KNOW PORNOGRAPHY WHEN HE SEES IT?

10 November 2021--TITLES IN ITALICS AND BOLD ARE NOT WRITTEN 

                          AN OKIE’S RACIAL RECKONINGS

 

#01 GODDAMN OKIES

#02 WHO THE OKIES WERE

#03 FAMILY STORIES--BEFORE I SAW I HAD TO DO RACE--good happy oblivious stories

#04 COUSINS AT WAR ON THE CHEROKEES What the Carolinians were doing at first instead of going off to fight the British

#05 JEFFERSON, COCKE, SIMS (The burning of the Sims Settlement 2 times. TJ as one of the cousins, an inconsistent one)

#06 RACIAL OBLIVIOUSNESS AT TRAP HILL (Siamese Twins in NC--and 2 NC men who held Union meetings in 1863)

#07 Dropped

#08 MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE (kin in the Arkansas wagon train were slaughtered in 1857)

#09 SIMS & SPARKS & THE “ATROCITY” AT MILLIKEN’S BEND (great cast of characters including Grant and the Empress Carlota & the handsomest hero--2 cousins of mine not kin to each other)

#10 FLETCHER HILL & FRATERNITY (1864 escape from Rebel Prison and journey to Union lines)

#11 CAPT. MATTHEWS--LIAR & MURDERER 1866 (Freedmen's Bureau lies are history now, still repeated)

#12 TOURGEE vs MCGEHEE--KKK 1860s & 1870s (awful details about KKK and end of Reconstruction with scary parallels to 2021)

#13 WILLY SIMS & THE DANVILLE “STREET-FIGHT” (a reckless cousin who all by himself (they said) ended Reconstruction in Virginia)

#14 GLENN-TUCKER JARNDYCE vs JARNDYCE OF I. T. (My family story ending with 3 corrupt judges who ruled against us--one died in alcoholic binge, another slit his throat (but lived), and third had a leg cut off and died.)

#15 DICK COSTNER’S GALLANTRY AT WOUNDED KNEE (provocative--Sen. Warren is right--but Dick really was gallant and deserves to keep his medal.)

#16 LEE SPARKS--ONE BAD COP (who doomed the Buffalo Soldiers)

#18 DOVEY--BLACK COSTNERS

         Appendix--RACIAL DOCUMENTS (wills, ads for runaways, sale ads &c)