Letters to the Editor
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Is this really about race?
I have to question the assertions in this article regarding the degree to which the media and the public are on some level reveling in the downfall of Whitney because she is African-American. There are an abundance of examples on any given day in the tabloids of similar stories involving non African-Americans - take your pick. The media, and the public, love the story of any former superstar (regardless of skin color) plummeting into the depths of depravity and failure, for a variety of reasons. I won't indulge in any pop psychology to elaborate on that here, but just because someone is African-American, and goes from the heights of stardom to sad, pathetic behavior doesn't mean that it necessarily has anything to do with their ethnicity, any more than people who slow down to gawk at a car accident do so because of what the make of car happens to be...