2 Nephi 28 and Flying the Confederate Flag

   Should we fly the Confederate flag? Some will tell you there are answers for all right-and-wrong questions in the scriptures, so is there anything in the scriptures that indicates whether we should fly the Confederate battle flag?
    The Latter-day Saints have a scripture. I do not say this is a fulfillment, but I wonder. If it is not a fulfillment, it certainly is a likeness. Just as we should ponder and reflect on all our scriptures, I wonder on what is said in 2 Nephi 28. "(D)ig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no harm in this."
   Even so, we "dig a pit" for the black people, in a sense. We throw them down, and harm them. The war was fought, largely, over slavery. Those who see the Confederate battle flag as being an image supporting slavery are not wrong to make that association. Dig a pit for thy neighbor? Yes, flying the flag might qualify as a way of "digging a pit" for them.
  And, as we dig this pit, we say we are doing no harm. We say we have no intention of hurting anyone, and that we are not racists, and that they should not be reading more into it than is there.
   They shouldn't be so sensitive.
   "(D)ig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no harm in this"? Even so, we say there is no harm.
   Later in the chapter, it speaks of the devil leading the souls of men carefully down to hell. How careful is the way he leads us on the race issue, how deceptive, as he makes bad things appear good. The scripture speaks of a devil that says he is no devil, for there is none. Even so, we take the message that no harm is being done and say it is not from the devil, for there is no devil whispering in our ear to fly the Confederate flag. Leave the devil out of this, for he has nothing to do with it.
   Oh, if we would just open our eyes, and see that the blacks are taking offense, and are being hurt, and they do see these signs and images as vestiges of the day when slavery was accepted. If we want to harm no one, if we want to be lovers of all men, it would seem we should realize flying and wearing the Confederate flag is harmful.