https://youtube.com/@Say_When?si=e9Y9vrIqX2wenDcq https://open.spotify.com/show/7iD0uCK6DbSDXSYvpSx4QA?si=6j27XyOcQVWvsHbZ6KbhPg https://www.bonfire.com/store/whiskey-brooks/ Originally from Saskatchewan, and have lived all over the US southeast. I'm an accountant and CPA, with expertise in construction and project accounting, including project turnarounds I also specialize in full cycle business acquisitions, integrations, process redesigns and implementations. Master's of Accountancy. Amateur photographer. "[...] I have said that President Lincoln was a white man, and shared the prejudices common to his countrymen towards the colored race. Looking back to his times and to the condition of his country, we are compelled to admit that this unfriendly feeling on his part may be safely set down as one element of his wonderful success in organizing the loyal American people for the tremendous conflict before them, and bringing them safely through that conflict. His great mission was to accomplish two things: first, to save his country from dismemberment and ruin; and, second, to free his country from the great crime of slavery. To do one or the other, or both, he must have the earnest sympathy and the powerful cooperation of his loyal fellow-countrymen. Without this primary and essential condition to success his efforts must have been vain and utterly fruitless.[...] Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined." -Frederick Douglass "In my earlier experiences I used to have sympathy with the colored people who were narrow and bitter toward white people. As I grew older I began to study that class of colored people, and I found that they did not get anywhere, that their bitterness and narrowness toward the white man did not hurt the white man or change his feeling toward the colored race, but that, in almost every case, the cherishing of such feeling toward the white man reacted upon the colored man and made him narrow and bitter." -Booker T. Washington This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. Abraham Lincoln--April 6, 1859 Letter to Henry Pierce