First, they came for the school libraries, but I said nothing for I had a Kindle. “I’ve instructed my staff to compile a list” are words that no elected official in the United States should say, given the shadow of McCarthyism imbued in any government “list.” But that doesn’t stop Republican Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools Ryan Walters, drunk with new power, announcing from the driver’s seat that he’s going to purge books from school libraries and decertify two state teachers who dared give lessons about gender and race. (I mean, outside of Tulsa and OKC, how many Oklahomans have seen a person of color in person? So, such lessons seem appropriate.)