The other anti-American fraud, Ward Churchill, also used this infamous quote.
Colonel Sanders?
It’s far older than any of those miserable, illiterate turkeys. My guess — Shakespeare.
The Taliban and Saddam got some chickens roosting too and Mr. Wright is angry at the US over that. How about he show a little rage at his muslim brothers who killed thousands of people in an undeclared act of war?
Chickens came home to roost for Malcom the Tenth too when he betrayed the muslim klan. He got uppity and criticized the leadership. And they got him in the end.
It was Choshifa, a Mesopotamian chicken farmer who was commenting upon the reliability of his flock coming back home when they got hungry or the sun went down.
Wright: If you heard the whole sermon, first of all, you heard that I was quoting the ambassador from Iraq."
No you weren't you liar. I had never heard anything about Malcolm X saying "chickens coming home to roost" until I heard your sermon last week. I went back and looked it up, and indeed Malcolm X was your source, and if you had listened again to your whole sermon you would have heard the mention.
I first heard the term on the “Amos N’ Andy Show”.
Joe Bob Wilkins, preparing the fixin's for a 4th of July bar-b-q back in 1958...........
Quickly becoming an over-exposed statement, like “The Mother of all...”
One of the local television stations in South Louisiana
aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans.
The interviewee was asked if the complete devastation
of the churches in the area had affected their lives.
Without hesitation, the woman replied, 'I don't know about
all those other peoples, but we haven't gone to Church's in
years. We gets our chicken from Popeye's.'
The look on the interviewer's face was priceless.