I hope folks don't mind, as I have found what I think is a very good article with a bit more background on this "chickens came home to roost" proclamation by Jeremiah Wright. I was unaware of it until I read this article, but apparently there is a bit more history to the usage of that term, one by none other than Malcolm X. Malcolm X applied this to JFK when JFK was assasssinated, implying that what goes around comes around, in regard to the purported attempts by the CIA to assassinate Castro previous to JFK's assassination. The article also points out the usage of the term by Ward Churchill, the radical professor at University of Colorado, who basically said the people in the towers were guilty and therefore deserved to die as being part of the capitalistic American "global financial empire."
I had forgotten this too, but Wright also mentioned the bombs dropped on Japan to end World War II, and used that as evidence that we deserved 9/11. I find this interesting because Obama is chomping at the bit to go to Japan to mark the observance of the bombs, no doubt to apologize at great length once again for all of America's sins as he no doubt believes them to be numerous and terrible. He seems to enjoy apologizing for America. I guess he must think as Michelle does that there was absolutely nothing to be proud of until he has become president. Only he is something for the country to be proud of, I guess is what they think?
Toward the end of the article, it points out Obama's choice as to whether he wants to be "authentic" or "American?" We have to guess at what this means, but based upon what teeny has told us about "oreos," I suspect the meaning might be along those lines, will Obama become an "oreo" or will he be "authentic." Interestingly, there have been some noises already from extreme leftists in the black community that Obama may not be authentic or completely black.
Here is the article in full: I think the whole thing is worth posting here. I think it provides a window into the mindset of radicals like Churchill, Wright, Malcolm X, and probably Obama.
When Ward Churchill wrote Some People Push Back: Of the Justice of Roosting Chickens about the attacks of September 11, 2001, a lot of people felt that he was original in his hateful thinking. As was the case with his “authentic” American Indian Art, nothing about Ward Churchill came even remotely close to being original.
In Churchill’s “opus magnum”, he wrote the following breathtakingly callous and hateful concluding paragraph.
As for those in the World Trade Center... Well, really, let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" - a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" - counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in - and in many cases excelling at - it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.[1] N.B. The original link to Churchill’s article no longer functions.
Ward Churchill was paying his homage to a speech given by Malcolm X on 4 December 1963. In this speech, Malcolm X predicted the downfall of the United States because our country had at one time employed African Americans as slaves.
He was asked after the speech what he thought of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He describes this grisly event as an example of chickens coming home to roost. The speech went on to be known as Malcolm X’s “Roosting Chickens Speech”, and a new meme was born in the circles that hate America First.
While Ward Churchill’s hatred of his country ultimately shocked the masses, Churchill was not the only American public figure to celebrate the events of 9/11 or even to appropriate the words of Malcolm X. Reverend Jeremiah Wright took to the pulpit on 16 September 2001. He offered the following thoughts on the terrorist attacks.
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost," he told his congregation.
At the time, a bright, young and up-and-coming politician from Chicago named Barack Obama may or may not have been in the church to hear Reverend Wright’s words of wisdom. Obama attended the church frequently for a period of twenty years. He married his wife, Michelle, with Reverend Wright officiating and the Reverend baptized the Future Senator’s children.
In 2004, in perhaps the most triumphant moment of Barack Obama’s life, he took to a stage in Chicago to give a victory speech in his race to become a US Senator. Yes, three years after Reverend Wright described 9-11 as “chickens coming home to roost” and barely a year after Reverend Wright preached to his congregation “G__ D___ the USA!”, Senator Elect Obama said the following.
Let me thank my pastor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. of Trinity United church of Christ. Barack Obama, Election Night 2004.
These words of praise and thanks have stopped coming from Barack Obama’s lips. The remarks of Reverend Wright have become common knowledge, and Senator Obama now denies he was in attendance when the preacher spoke them. He now seeks to use his absence from church to shield him from the content of the prayers uttered therein.
In his early political career, before Barack Obama had roots in the community, Reverend Wright was Barack’s ticket to authenticity. Reverend Wright gave Barack Obama street credibility, when he previously had none with Chicago electorate of his district. Now that Barack has set his sights on bigger game than the Illinois State Legislature, the definition of street credibility has changed.
Barack Obama is now attempting to distance himself from the Reverend. Reverend Wright no longer adds his divine benediction to the Obama2008 website. He no longer has even a ceremonial position with the campaign. Authentic has become too edgy.
Barack’s efforts to dispense with Reverend Wright may or may not succeed. He has lost 5 points of favorability since the Reverend’s deep thoughts entered the domain of public political discourse. In a sense, Barack Obama has been forced to make a cruel choice.
Senator Obama cannot appease both the Black Nationalist Movement and the nation as a whole. Too many ambitious black Americans, like Senator Obama have been made to choose between being authentic and being American. In that sense, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, and those who follow their lead, have driven a stake through the heart of Martin Luther King’s famous dream. When Barack Obama has to make the choice of his minister and his beliefs or his country, the chickens of Malcolm X have indeed come home to roost in 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987140/posts
