I will say this once and for all; I am a Whitney Houston
fan. So I found Saturday’s shocker very
upsetting. I did not cry. I wanted to, but for some reason I did not,
because that would not bring her back. This
is a brief post on her. I am not going
to speculate on what killed her (they say she drowned in the bathtub), I want
to remember her the way she was at the height of her career, and that was her
amazing voice. Later, I want to talk a
little bit about judging, because I feel it is important.
Whitney came on the scene at age 19 and was a model prior to
that. God had told her that this is how
I want you to reach people. She has
touched so many lives and she even shocked a few when she admitted two years
ago that she was doing drugs. I want to
stop there, because that was twice I received the shocker of my life. The first was Michael Jackson when he was
found dead in his home. Whitney was clean at the time of her death, and some said she suffered a little bout of anxiety.
I do not think that most people know what celebrities go
through to entertain us. Not only do we
put pressure on them, but talent agents, paparazzi, and even the stars
themselves strive to become better. There is a
saying, “You are only as good as your next gig, record, movie, or television
show.” One hair out of place, and we are
quick to judge that person. I was
reading over the weekend some of the comments that people were saying about
Whitney. Most were saying how she
touched that person with her gift of song.
Others were saying that “the world has lost an angel”. Then I came across a person who simply said, “Crackhead.” We,
as humans love to bring a person down, when they are already down and out , and
this came after the woman had been dead for a couple of hours. We do not know what Whitney Houston’s
condition was when she died, and we do not know what she was thinking when the
unthinkable happened. No one knows but
Whitney and God. She was getting ready
for a pre-Grammy party when this happened.
It could have been simply God telling her that it was time for her to leave.
The killer for me was when her daughter, Bobbi Kristina was
taken to the hospital, and the vultures were still circling to get a glimpse of
that scene. They wanted to know why she
was taken to the hospital. What do you
think? The girl just lost her mother,
and she was not allowed to see her one last time. The kid was stressed out from all of
this. I hope that these people will
leave the family alone. At any time that
Bobbi Kristina, Dionne Warwick, or any other members of her family wants to
talk to the reporters and the insensitive camera people, that is their
choice. It was the same way with
Michael Jackson’s children and family when he died. No respect for the dead at all.
So with that, R.I. P Whitney Houston. I hope they will release the movie, “Sparkle”
as schedule in November of this year. I
have seen the original several times on television, which stars Irene Cara and
Michael Thomas (the guy who played Officer Tubbs on Miami Vice), and it was
good. I hope this version lives up to
the original. Jordin Sparks looks like
a young Irene Cara, and I cannot wait.