The Importance of Friendship Between Black Women and Their Depictions in Media
“Count on me through thick and thin, a friendship that will never end When you are weak I will be strong Helping you to carry on Call on me I will be there, don’t be afraid Please believe me when I say, Count on.” Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds wrote this song and many others for the soundtrack of one of my favorite movies, Waiting to Exhale. I wrote those lyrics in my best friend’s yearbook in 2014, about 19 years after it was recorded. Today we are still best friends and not to brag but I have kept my word, or Babyface’s words, from then til now. The song itself is a promise between two friends that no matter what they may be going through, they will be there for one another. Whenever one is lacking, the other will pick up the slack. Their friendship will never end because they can depend on each other and they love each other. It’s the last song of the album and the song that plays at the end of the movie when the credits are rolling. At the end of the film, the four friends, Bernadin