Dear Editor,
I just got a piece of composition by Marc Matthews making a point about Obama’s candidacy for what the writer calls “The Emperor wuk.”
He says “Supporting Barak because he is black would be reactionary.”
And, truly, in the world in which we wish to live, “the Emperor” should exist outside and above common categories such as “race” or “class.” Existing as repository of high principles. Progress and Justice. And reigning over a time, remembered or mythological, as expression of a people’s enlightenment, of a Golden Rule – an altruistic benevolence. For even in the most materialistic of schemes the Emperor, be he man or popular party, is held to stand for and defend, and to impose, something timeless and exalted and “conducive to life.”
