Ellene Miles
About Me:
Ellene Miles has worked as an entertainment publicist for more than 6 years. Her collection of rants will be featured exclusively on UTC for the good of the people.
Those of us old enough to remember songs like the all-star collaboration “Sun City,” and rapper KRS-One’s “Mandela’s Not Free,” can deeply appreciate the progress of South Africa depicted in the new film “Invictus.” Those unaware of the sting of Apartheid, which only ended a scant 15 years ago, can still dig the story of [...]
I still loved him. I didn’t think of him often; he had confused and upset me, so I kept a distance from his regular comings and goings. I was hurt by the things he did to himself. His once beautiful, black face made into what seemed to be a facade of moveable parts and melanin challenged skin. It hurt to see him dissolve.
I’ve been watching the Bush to Obama transition of power with a fairly close eye. I believe it has been one conducted in the spirit of progress and commitment to solving the issues that plague us, “the real Americans.”
Yet, there is one thing about this selection process that I just can’t get [...]
“All the white people she has ever met needed, in one way or another, to be reassured, consoled, to have their consciences priced but not blasted; could not, could not afford to hear a truth which would shatter, irrevocably, their image of themselves. It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a [...]
I knew that this presidential campaign would be full of subplots and hairy twists and turns. I knew that it would be a battle of youth vs. old school, vigor vs. Viagra and plain truth vs. BS.
However, somehow I’ve been naïve enough to find myself stunned by the latest rallying cry of [...]
Even before the information at-our-fingertips age of Google and Wikipedia, I have always one of those people with a lot of useless info floating around in my head, like loose cartilage in an old linebacker’s knee. For example, I can name all of the husband’s of both Elizabeth Taylor AND Erica Cane. I [...]
I am frequently amazed and amused by my social interaction with other cultures. Ok, that’s just the P.C. way of saying white folks. Recently, I was out and about doing grown up errands and generally having a very “me” day in my usual casual jeans and t-shirt gear. This day, my t-shirt happened to have [...]
Dear John McCain,
Why are you doing this to us?
Is it because Bush and his Rove-led pit bulls treated you like an outsider during your past campaigns? Is it because they made you feel like rotted smelly fish, un-worthy of all the years of service you have given to the U.S. Senate as its self proclaimed [...]
Barack Obama is Sidney Poitier. He is smooth and handsome, eloquent and commanding in person and on-screen. He is magnetic, polite, intelligent and refined. He is clean-shaven and physically non-threatening. He isn’t too loud or boastful. He is calm and collected, temper flaring only in response to rampant injustice. [...]
For the past several weeks, tabloid star Lindsay Lohan has been seen kissing, hugging, holding hands and just plain ole giving up the PDA to her “gal pal,” socialite party circuit DJ Samantha Ronson. From movie sets to P. Diddy’s yacht, these two have really been getting around.
Now, at this stage in [...]