# Are all Confederate Monuments and Memorials Offensive?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 10, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-confederate-monuments-and-memorials-offensive/946168 "2021-07-10T16:52:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-confederate-monuments-and-memorials-offensive/946168/121 "2021-10-26T15:26:05Z")

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An update from Franklin, Tenn., site of a terrible battle in Nov. 1864:

> **[A statue honoring the US Colored Troops was unveiled across the street from a...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/us/tennessee-us-colored-troops-statue/)**
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> When numerous cities across America fought to remove Confederate monuments, a city in Tennessee chose to refocus attention on the contributions of Black people in the Civil War.

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