It's pretty obvious that Rev. Wright meant something entirely different in his speech than what Malcolm X meant both in his speech as well as in his comment on JFK.

Surely what Malcolm X and Wright meant by using the expression "chickens coming home to roost" were what anybody else would mean by the expression - that actions have consequences, and bad events often have their roots in previous bad actions.

This isn't something Malcolm X dreamed up - he was just using an expression that has been around for ever. The earliest recorded occurrence of the expression seems to be in the Roman poet Terence, back in the second century BC.

The same notion as the Hindu "Karma".

How come it's suddenly seen as a particularly controversial thing to say?