Whitney Houston and the Addiction to White Supremacy

Whitney and the Addiction to White Supremacy

No amount of drugs, alcohol and sex will satisfy the social

angst and shattered cultural strivings.--Dr. Nathan Hare

A mourner holds up a poster of Whitney Houston in front of church where here funeral was held on 17 February 2012

How can you win, if you ain't right within?, says a recent rap song. And James Brown sang Money can't save you, but time will take you out! Why do so many artists, myself included, have the need for drugs and alcohol? Applause is not enough, money is not enough, and yes, sometimes love is not enough, especially when there is no love of self. It doesn't matter how many people love you when you don't love yourself. After the concert with fan applause is over, one often sits in the dressing room alone, exhausted and unhappy. At the performance of my play One Day in the Life at San Francisco's Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Dr. William H. Grier, co-author of the 60s classic Black Rage, asked me how I was doing. I said I don't know. Dr. Grier told his son, "I don't know what's wrong with Marvin, he's got Mayor Willie Brown opening his show, a packed audience and a Jaguar parked outside. What's wrong with him?" Some call it divine discontent, i.e., no matter how many blessings God bestows upon us, it is not enough. And then sometimes we are simply ungrateful bastards. And so we turn to drugs for comfort, to medicate, to reach that altered state of mind that the human touch cannot fulfill, or perhaps the human touch is not there, or perhaps we cannot touch that divine self that must be touched before we can enjoy the touch of another, the love of another, no matter it be husband, wife, children, friend or fans.

But we know the cause for our addiction is deeper than drugs or the trappings of materialism, it is something in the air that stinks like rotten meat, as Langston Hughes put it. Sometime when I'm in the South, I get that feeling that something ain't right up in here, in this blood soaked land, land of the slave system that endures to this day. Or is it that same feeling W.E.B. DuBois felt in China when Chairman Mao introduced him to a million people, "Thank you Chairman Mao for the great introduction, but in my country I am just a nigguh."

Did Whitney feel like just a nigguh, with all her talent, fame and fortune? May Allah grant you peace of mind, Whitney!
--Marvin X


Whitney Houston drowned after cocaine use, says coroner

A mourner holds up a poster of Whitney Houston in front of church where here funeral was held on 17 February 2012

Whitney Houston's death was caused by accidental drowning, but drug abuse and heart disease were also factors, a coroner has ruled.

Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said drug tests indicated the 48-year-old US singer was a chronic cocaine user.

The announcement ends weeks of speculation over the cause of Houston's death.

She was found submerged in the bath of her Los Angeles hotel room on the eve of the Grammy Awards on 11 February.

In a statement, the LA County Coroner's office described Houston's manner of death as an "accident", adding that "no trauma or foul play is suspected".

The cause was cited as drowning and "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use".

Other drugs found in her blood included marijuana, as well as an anti-anxiety drug, a muscle relaxant and an allergy medication.

But these were not factors in her death, the coroner's statement said.

Patricia Houston, the singer's sister-in-law and manager, told the Associated Press news agency: "We are saddened to learn of the toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure."

The pop star was laid to rest at a cemetery in her home state of New Jersey after a funeral that was attended by celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige.

The singer, who was one of the world's best selling artists from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, had a long battle with drug addiction.

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  • Chicago-Midwest

    Some of us think something happen other than what they are telling you! One thing thats is very bad! Is why! Would you leave her body in a room for nine hour or more. until Mr. clive Davis event was over? Thats the first strange thing.And her body was directly over the event were the ceremony was being haled. Second why was she left alone so long? And to top that off! What was the banging in her room and where was the security cameras and the security for the celebritys hallways were people try to get in there rooms. who was keeping an eye on such a vonrable person. The coroner' is covering up something that were not mention like the champagne she was drinking in her room. The same champagne that she ane her daughter were drinking before her daughter left the room and she had went in her room to take a bath and she could not get out the bathtub her friends had to get security to get the door open so the they could get her out the tub. Her daughter said: she felt helpless a little later after she got in the tub after drinking with her mother after she left her mothers room and call for help!. Ms. Houston had been using drug for some time. and when you use anything for a while you build a resistance for what ever you have been taken. i know drug users, who do both drugs. Heroin & cocaine and were 50 yr.old and more. So don't tell that lie' Cocaine was the reason her heart just gave out! Even drinking and druging has not killed lots of drug users, that in 24 yr of sales and being around those who used daily. The body builds a resistance as it goes. she was not new to drugs. and she was a functional attic. most of them learn to use drugs effectively without over doing it to there death. In other words theyknew there limit. unless some one esle have them more then they are customed too! see you would have to been ah-custom to this lifestyle. where you really are surrounded by this behavior and druglifestyle on a daily basis. Truly she was a sacrifice 4 clive davis and his luma na it. as her body layed above their ceremony! If she could'nt sing why was she even there if she was all druged out? unless some one had another reason why she should be there. who would want to associate with a person that out fo control an a anti- anxiety pill popping drug out artist to come make them all look bad? some one had her there for some different purpose.   And reason. and if she die a lot of people would be able to cash in on her death. the Questions is who would benefit the most? Just like M.J. who benefited the most? since he could no longer do those concerts with her because of the drug use. remember the best saling artist is one thats died! they all reach the top of the charts. some how. A.j.

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