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The result was keep. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:43, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pound Cake speech[edit]

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No indication that this particular speech is notable in its own right, since the only source is a singular blog post. Stonemason89 (talk) 00:16, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nominator's reasoning. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 02:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and come up with a better name for this very notable and controversial speech by Bill Cosby, which I remember clearly. When I Google with the search terms "Bill Cosby NAACP speech controversy", I see numerous articles in reliable sources discussing this speech. Cullen328 (talk) 02:12, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The "blog post" mentioned above was a lengthy article by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor at The Atlantic . That's a reliable source, because he's a professional journalist writing for a major publication. Cullen328 (talk) 02:28, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep There are numerous reliable sources found even when searching for "Pound Cake Speech." PeRshGo (talk) 04:32, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Plenty of reliable references, including books. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 05:39, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. This speech was discussed on many TV shows and in many magazine articles. It was talked about in books and it sparked responses in essays. Whole books were written solely in response, such as Is Cosby Right? by Michael Eric Dyson. Some of the source I found in a quick search:
  • Essays in response to Bill Cosby's comments about African American failure, edited by Theresa A. Mohamed (2006)
  • Enough: the phony leaders, dead-end movements, and culture of failure that are undermining Black America-- and what we can do about it, page 12. Juan Williams (2007)
  • The Atlantic monthly, Volume 301.
  • Stand for Something: The Battle for America's Soul, pages 126–127. John Kasich (2006)
  • Our schools suck: students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education, page 33. Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderson, Celina Su (2009)
  • Dreaming blackness: black nationalism and African American public opinion, page 201. Melanye T. Price (2009)
  • Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama, page 197. Peniel E. Joseph (2010)
  • Jet magazine June 2005, review of Dyson's book, page 19.
  • Ebony magazine, November 2008, "The truth behind Cosby's Crusade".
  • Race, whiteness, and education, page 161. Zeus Leonardo (2009)
  • Best African American Essays 2010

These would help flesh out the article. Binksternet (talk) 05:53, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Proquest shows 34 hits from newspaper articles. It seems noteworthy.   Will Beback  talk  06:11, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This was a pretty famous speechJmm6f488 (talk) 09:06, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Binksternet shows there are plenty of reliable sources to support notability. Edward321 (talk) 14:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.