A writer who once called 9/11 first responders “menaces of nature” is set to speak at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Fox News learned Tuesday. Ta-Nehisi Coates, a provocative journalist for The Atlantic, is scheduled to give a lecture at the New York school on April 12 in a talk hosted by the Department of English and Philosophy. The speech, which is not yet listed publicly by West Point, is billed as the Second Annual Zengerle Family Lecture in the Arts and Humanities. “It should be a full and rich environment.”Coates’ reputation as a divisive writer stems mostly from his writings on race. “They were not human to me,” Coates wrote in his book, “Between The World And Me,” about the emergency responders who rushed into The World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

Source: Fox News March 07, 2017 19:11 UTC