She was raised in a Christian home. Her mother, Cissy Houston was a notable gospel singer. That environment let her develop her God given talent to its peak potential. All the changes occurred after the record contracts and concerts. It was at that point that large elements of the black music industry began attacking her as not being “black enough”, denying her black roots, and being a “ goody-goody” and much more. It was into that milieu this young woman found herself. I sincerely believe that crowd pressure ultimately overwhelmed her. Isolated by circumstance and the willful maneuvering by the hangers-on, party people and lousy managers and the scum bucket Bobby Brown she succumbed. It came to the point ( on Oprah or elsewhere) that she ended up saying “I'm not the goody two shoes some people think. I can get down and raunchy etc.”. That degenerate world ate her up.
Dwight “Doc” Gooden similarly succumbed to the black hip drug using black athletic environment.
The real tragedy is the damage done to her daughter. Imagine seeing the sparkling past of your mother and contrasting it with the reality of you drug addled mother pleading with friends for a $100 and knowing it was for the next drug hit. All of Whitney's hundreds of millions of dollars didn't go to drugs, managers and hangers-on stripped her carcase clean while she was alive. So far it doesn't seem that WH made any provisions for her only child. Hopefully Cissy had enough influence with her daughter to make sure the granddaughter was provide for.
My, my, my ... finally someone with the courage to tell the truth. A very large part of Whitney’s problem was that the dominant black culture refuses to eschew deplorable behavior and embrace moral standards. As you correctly point out, they yammer that being “goody-goody” means you’re trying to pass for white (though much of white culture is now on the same slippery slide towards decadence).
There is likely not a white person in the world to whom Whitney would have listened. And far, far too many of the black “leaders” adamantly refuse to condemn black malfeasance. (When was the last time you heard Barack Obama condemn the 70% illegitimacy, the rampant crime, and the generational welfarism in the black community? Ain’t going to happen.)
Tragically, Whitney made her own choices and took her own chances. But, it might have helped if the dominant black culture did not make a habit of excusing — or worse yet, embracing — such stupid choices.
The daughter was caught on video doing cocaine!
What people do not understand is that when you are a notable Christian the demons of hell are out to destroy you because they do not want you to become a role model for Christ. Many people think that they are strong and would not do as Whitney did but they do not know the kind of spiritual attack she was under by the evil one. Neither, I doubt, did she. She didn't realize the stakes nor the battle that went on in the spiritual realm over her demise. If she did she would have seriously sought God every inch of the way.
As it is, most likely as she became famous and rich she placed God on a "back burner", which is not hard to do when life is over whelming you with benefits. Even though Whitney was likely actually a Christian I doubt that she was grounded in life saving doctrine. She was like a lamb in midst of wolves, with little defense, and she became torn apart and eventually died.