OPINION: How Bill Cosby’s 2004 ‘Pound Cake’ speech exploded into his latest legal disaster
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Though long a symbol of responsible parenthood — model TV dad, doctor of education, proud supporter of Temple University — Bill Cosby etched his legacy in stone with a speech in 2004 that took black parents to task. It became famous as the “Pound Cake” speech for this passage:
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