Cissy Houston Reflects on Raising Whitney  In her memoir, the
pop star's mom describes the folly and frustration of witnessing
her daughter's life.  Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston (Stephen
Lovekin/Getty Images Entertainment)  (The Root) -- When someone
you love dies, the first question to escape before the grief
hits you in the throat is often, "Why?" Why her, why now, why
me, why not someone else? Nothing could be truer of the sudden
death of musical icon Whitney Houston, who, after appearing on
the upswing following years of battling drugs, left fans and
family asking that familiar question last February.  But the
answers to tragedy are never truly, satisfyingly found, and
Houston's mother, Cissy, doesn't try to find them in her new
memoir, Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss and the
Night the Music Stopped, released recently. Instead of trading
in salacious details, Mama Houston -- known as "Big Cuda," as in
barracuda to Whitney's roadies -- tells the intimate story of a
mother's love for her ba