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By Adamu Adamu
Curses
are like sins, sins are like chickens and chickens are like boomerangs:
they all invariably always come back home to roost—in other words,
untoward words or inappropriate actions are likely to rebound on and
catch up with the perpetrator. At the dusk of day, chickens always come
home to roost.
This saying was popularised by Malcolm X. When John F. Kennedy was killed, Malcolm X declared that it was the White Man’s chickens coming home to roost. Those who were made violent in defence of America’s interest abroad were now back to do exactly at home what they had done abroad. And Malcolm X added, not without relish: ‘Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. [They] only made me glad.’
The metaphor of these chickens is even more apt today. Following the Second World War, there was really effectively only one world that mattered—the First World, led by the Americans; and all the rest of us were a mere supporting cast. There was of course the defeated world of Germany and Japan, and then there was the Wretched of the Earth—the world that was nothing but for the first a sphere of influence.
The victors drew, curved and carved up the sphere, while those of them that were colonial powers had the control of the colonies and the commonwealth
This saying was popularised by Malcolm X. When John F. Kennedy was killed, Malcolm X declared that it was the White Man’s chickens coming home to roost. Those who were made violent in defence of America’s interest abroad were now back to do exactly at home what they had done abroad. And Malcolm X added, not without relish: ‘Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. [They] only made me glad.’
The metaphor of these chickens is even more apt today. Following the Second World War, there was really effectively only one world that mattered—the First World, led by the Americans; and all the rest of us were a mere supporting cast. There was of course the defeated world of Germany and Japan, and then there was the Wretched of the Earth—the world that was nothing but for the first a sphere of influence.
The victors drew, curved and carved up the sphere, while those of them that were colonial powers had the control of the colonies and the commonwealth
