(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people won’t let the deceased rest, and they can’t accept the truth of a matter. When Showtime aired their documentary on Whitney Houston the discussion rekindled about Bobby Brown’s involvement with her drug addiction. So many of us love Whitney Houston, she is The Voice that can never be replaced. To this day we can listen to her music, and it invokes feeling, and it moves us. The loss of her was such a tragedy, and everyone was looking for someone to blame.
Yes, we had no choice but to acknowledge that our beloved Whitney Houston indeed was addicted to drugs, but what we didn’t want to 
believe was that the problem predated Bobby Brown. Whitney was the American Sweetheart of Pop and R&B, and there was no way this good girl raised up in the church with musical Icons for family members was responsible for her introduction to drugs. It was so much easier to blame the bad boy of R&B Bobby Brown. He seemed to be everything she wasn’t…edgy, loud and wild.
The problem many wrestle with, but need to acknowledge is: Bobby Brown did not introduce Whitney Houston to drugs. In an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey Whitney Houston’s brother, in the presence of her mother, admitted to introducing her to drugs. With that being, said it’s time to let the Bobby Brown did it sentiment go because it’s simply not the truth. To this day when the subject of Whitney Houston is brought up, and her death is discussed Bobby Brown is named as a culprit in her demise. She was just too good for him. Well Whitney Houston was a real person, and had her tendencies. She wasn’t the image the record company portrayed; that doesn’t make her a bad person it makes her human.
The media, and fans, have blamed Bobby Brown to the point he was ill-treated when she passed. Regardless of their fall out…Bobby Brown loved Whitney Houston, and the loss of her life hurt him. On the back end of losing her he would lose the child that was the product of their union and love. Many owe Bobby Brown an apology he will never receive.
There are some that won’t acknowledge they have been wrong about him, and insist against facts that he was the undoing of her. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, at some point became unhealthy for each other and drugs had plenty to do with that outcome. It’s far time to lay this too rest. Love Whitney Houston, but let’s stop demonizing Bobby Brown…he didn’t start her on this path.
Staff Writer; Adonicka Sassy
