Cracker Crazy: The Invisible History of The Sunshine State

[fuggity1]

intro's way too fuckin long.

[creativeprojects720]

@fuggity1 I am still stuck on the intro now.

[johnrechy1]

I watched your video in great sadness. Having lived in Florida in the 80's & 90's (Palm Beach Co.) I have seen seen so much change people call progress, I call destruction. Ruined environment, too many people, now each time i visit, ( i still have many friends there) it's worse. Well done! I could even think of more history (recent) to add..i'm sure you too..how about part 2?

[indyfan22k]

@johnrechy1 the "Great Recession" has actually seen the state population decrease and development halt.

[cabalofdemons]

@indyfan22k Very true. The current housing market in Florida is horrible.

[mark34667]

The first three quarters of this film are very interesting.

[duvalmenina]

I think this was an interesting video. It was certainly biased but at the same time all of the things discussed did happen. As a Floridian it makes me sad to know all the tribes that were killed off and as a Black person I was mad bc of all the injustices done to the Blacks. However, I was not surprised by anything in the film because this literally happened every in the Americas. I liked learning about the Florida history.

[mrlighterknot1]

thanks for the warning ill go 2 something better

[smithdive]

Started off good and devolved into racist propaganda. Racist against the white American male. Don't bother watching this garbage.

[Premiess80]

There obviously is alot of redneck areas to this state. It is a very big adjustment to anyone from up north.

[fifteenmeeneets]

Verizon sucks



[viatorsolus1]

Why is this film called a documentary, this is just a bunch of the creator's opinions, none back by facts or by very few facts. Not that all he says is wrong, most are just incomplete....this is an opinion piece.....period.

[kybigd1]

I really enjoyed this film. But I must say that President Hoover really disrespected those WWI vets by using force against them. If it wasn't for those vets, maybe President Hoover would not have been.

[anpdm1]

In reagrds to the klan in FL, it's important to know that the klan lynchings by mob were legal for 100 years after slavery. My grandfather was a black indian, father of 12, who died fighting for the freedom to express himself on his own land. Klansmen working as law enforcement decapitated him w/a train. At 10 yrs old. my Dad went to work in the migrant camps. White male overseers sexually assaulted children, boys and girls, at night. This is a snippet of the ugliness in US history.

[IronPathKeith]

Basically a film demonizing all White people who have ever had any association with Florida. Save yourself an hour and a half, or if hating white folks is your thing you word get better dialog from the Black Panther website. Seems to me this Cuban descendant should do a little more research to find out that Cuba once belonged to the US and he should probably start demonizing himself instead. BTW I have not ever lived in FL just an outsiders opinion that this film serves no purpose whatsoever.

[anpdm1]

@IronPathKeith I am African American and American Indian, my parents both born in raised in rural Florida. I do not think the film demonized white people, it gave just a sliver of Florida's history that will never show up in textbooks. These whispered facts have impacted thousands but America's inability to look at itself honestly allows those who oppressed people of color to now encroach on the economics of middle class whites.  My family history is American history.

[lazer1million]

Oh my god, White people killed indians and then got invaded by the descendents of the white people and indians from Cuba and Venezuela. Oh noes!11!!!111!11! Who cares about Florida?

So what? The indians are dead, and today some idiot white people like to brag about being part Native American, dispite the fact their ancestors were most likely Christian converts and traitors who helped Europeans hunt down their red skinned cousins thereby avoiding the reservations and genocide.

[CHASTEWOMAN]

Rufus White is my best friend for the last 11 yrs. He has a thousand cool stories to tell about old Florida, riding the rails and lots more!

[pele6922]

VOTE OUT RICK SCOTT!

[indyfan22k]

@pele6922 FL seems to like its Republican Governors.

[pele6922]

@indyfan22k thanks to everyone north of Orlando and the Cubans of Miami...they continually vote against their interests. Crist was alright, at least he cared about state employees like teachers. Rick Scott is just a tea bag millionaire hatchet man.

[WESTNDN]

Wow Just Wow!!! I guess now I Know

[MrJay1279]

@WESTNDN wow is an understatement i just cant believe this this is some sad shit what is worng with people WOW!!!

[tiye777]

i still love florida. everywhere african americans go there will be racism. sometimes racism is better when it's out in the open. Because you can segregate yourself and build with like minded people. but if you live somewhere where racism is not noticeable then that's when racism could kill you or worse oppress you.

[tiye777]

this video keeps stopping why? i play others videos and their fine.

[zandak5vr4v]

What is this sound track?The first song and in the lake story?

[aapl]

I grew up in Florida and took Florida history..but this is the real truth not discussed in the sanitized history books..great insights and thought provoking.... a must see for those seeking a truer picture of the reality of Florida's past..

[billy1212ist]

Some of the comments and much of the anger just proves how little ' man ' has changed.Not at all really.And these key boards and screens that we use,help some to see how wide spread the stupidity and lack of education is.Man is an animal,a meat eating killer,since day one,And his gods say it;s OK if you kill in his name too.We write 'the history',slanted and jaded to make us look 'right' and 'good',both lies.See we DON'T kill and take their land.We SAVE them,and bring them 'freedom',aint we good

[fredjklein]

All films are skewed by the director's "agenda". Frankly, as an ex-Southerner who spend many summers in Florida BEFORE Walt hit the scene - seeing the highway chain gangs, watching the Seminole "on display", seeing the abject poverty of the workers in the field, I'd say this film did a decent job of telling it like it was. So far, there's not a fact related that I haven't heard before, but all at once is kind of overpowering. RECOMMENDED!

[emmamartini]

@ 45 min..."the white man's genius" lmao!! i like this film, it's definitely different and has it's own style :)

[61TUNER]

HAD THOUGHT TO WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY,UNTIL I OBSERVED THE POSTINGS/REALIZED,I,D PROBABLY BE WATCHING REVERSE RACIST PROPAGANDA. GOT NO USE FOR ANYONES VERSION OF WHAT NO-ONE CAN CHANGE. THE PAST! REVERSE RACISM IS WORSE THAN RACISM ITSELF/GENERALLY THE IDEA OF SOMEONE WHO THINKS THE WORLD OWES THEM SOMETHING.I,LL PASS!

[Keyo717]

@61TUNER awwwwww...sob sob sob!

[61TUNER]

@Keyo717 DO,NT CRY LITTLE GIRL.GOT A ISSUE BUY A TISSUE.TO USE AS A TAMPON.WHAT YOU DID,NT KNOW YOU,RE ON THE RAG?

[Keyo717]

@61TUNER Eat a bag of dicks you fucken trash .... fuck you!

[61TUNER]

@Keyo717 YOU,VE ALREADY EATEN THEM YOURSELF YOU GAY-ASS BITCH! FUCK YOUR MOTHER,AGAIN INBREED.YOUR LIVING PROOF I DID.HIJO.YOU,RE REALLY WANTING TO SEE TRASH LOOK AT YOUR FAMILY PICTURE ALBUM.TRAILER TRASH.NOW.GO TELL!

[Keyo717]

@61TUNER slap slap slap shut up you little bitch.

[61TUNER]

@Keyo717 THATS WHAT YOUR GAY DADDY TOLD YOU.DICK-TAKER.

[Keyo717]

@61TUNER LOL...what a piece of shit....LOL

[61TUNER]

@Keyo717 YES. THATS,S WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MIRROR EVERY DAY BUT,WHATS YOUR POINT?

[Keyo717]

@61TUNER Hey thats pretty good for 15 year old.... LOL You're still trash! LOL

[61TUNER]

@Keyo717 SAID THE 5yr OLD. HO! YOU,RE LIVING PROOF YOUR HO-ASS MOMMA LOVED THIS TRASH.NOW TALK ALL THAT ABOUT MY MOTHER. PROVE YOU,RE A NECROPHILE! LOL!

[Keyo717]

@61TUNER Wow...that hurt.....LOL you're really killing me with stuff.....LOL Poor White Trash......LOL

I think I just saw your sister walk in shouldn't you be fucking her?

[61TUNER]

@Keyo717 NAW DAWG I,M TEARIN THE LINING OUTTA YO MOMMAS SHIT SHOOT. BUT,SINCE OLD GIRL TOLD ME YOU,RE A DICL-TAKER,NO I DO,NT BELIEVE IN ADAM/STEVE SO NO,YOU CAN,T LICK YO MOMMAS SHIT OFF MA DICK. COCK-BOY!

[Keyo717]

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[SwitchbladeKitty]

@61TUNER

What era are you living in? So when it's directed at whites, it's "REVERSE" racism, huh? What bullshit.

[61TUNER]

@SwitchbladeKitty YES.YOU ARE.

[wrybreadspread]

uncomfortable to watch. but that's a good thing. let all the sides be told. that's the only way to sort out the b.s.

[Niko2100]

This is not history. Please put it somewhere else.

[Cuah123]

This is the history everyone needs to learn. Also the reason why the US Govt invaded Mexico. Mexico had outlawed slavery in all their territories. This was affront to the US Govt. The US Govt was influenced by the Dutch West India Company

[Cuah123]

Artist De Bry has many wood carvings of incredibly violent acts against natives, including hanging women and their children around their wastes.

[donluchitti]

people knock the director for having an agenda that renders the historical data he presents in the film to the point of it being untrue, rhetorical or bias. While the director has a bias, like recognizing any euro-american characters a heroic role it's because in this country, white recognition and the virtues of establishment are taken for granted. This isn't revisionist, it's from the view of controversy, tragedy and the oppressed or subjugated. It is invisible history we forget for unity.

[Keyo717]

@donluchitti whenever anyone tries to tell the truth about the history of this country there are always SOME that don't want to deal with it. Sad really.

[MrTibbles28]

Who plays the song during the end credits?

[MrTibbles28]

@MrTibbles28 Oh its "Empty Burning" Brad Postlethwaite.

[gil435345345345]

What documentary is the footage/audio from around 8:23 about ponce de leon from?

[gil435345345345]

Anyone know the song at around 5:30-6:00

[orgspasm]

Definately not a documentary, rather an op ed piece by an angry film maker (Koszulinski). The continual bashing of America in a film that touts itself as a documentary about Florida speaks volumes of the producer and director. The use of phrases such as "misguided culture of America", "ideologies of the American Empire", "corrupt American government" reveals the nature of the people who created this film.

[donluchitti]

@orgspasm well, I see what you mean, but it's half true since there is a flip side to every opinion he makes. He denies any American with a European heritage the heroic role. We're supposed to take for granted our country's virtues in this flick,( don't we kinda already in most of our entertainment?). So to say this guy has an "agenda" seems misguided on your part to say because truly, you'd agree with me there is a "misguided culture" in America right? (there's also a guided one he doesn't rep)

[indigox91]

ummm...florida is an island...

[rabidabbey]

Yeah...can we have the names of the songs please??

[linkfilms77]

@rabidabbey The song at 40:20 and at the end of the film is "Leaves" off of Brad Postlethwaite's 2006 album "Welcome to the Occupation"

[store275]

I wish I knew the name of the band that sang the song at 40:20 and the song at the ending credits.

[YoyoMammogram]

whats the song at 40:20? anyone

[1tabt]

Outstanding! I wish that they had history like this when I was a student,

[Aboxatax]

Does anyone have information on the music in this movie?

[altha2008]

liked the first part of it up to the 1950's.

went threw the rosewood area after the movie came out

[UnderseaCaveman]

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY...... The DARK SIDE of FLORIDA brought to LIGHT... yeah, da DIRTY SOUTH.... what a bargain!!!

[richardsasso]

This documentary tells the truth about Florida - the ugly side of things, that is. It shows things like they are - or were. Things need to change and the current system needs to end. This documentary is a clarion call to all the Sunshine state to wake up and changes things. Learn about the reality of things.

[ikambor]

Face the Facts,,, white people are chosen by God to rule,, we are the only ones ready to administer justice

[Snufferson]

I loved this film even with it's obvious far-left agenda. Hitler would have been green with envy at Georg Koszulinski's propaganda. Love the music in this film -- especially Brad Postlethwaite's stuff.

[Say1taga1n]

First 3/4 of film was enjoyable. Last 1/4 was pure propaganda. I've lived in FL all my life. The charge of racism in the 2000 election is crap. Sour grapes. And the migrant worker areas are dangerous. Go there to help them, and you'll be murdered. I'm glad the Indians have a source of income now though.

[cachaito24]

THis is a great and creative documentary. If you want a happy version of Florida's history, read a high school history book. This is an underground history of Florida featuring characters passed over by most history books. Subversive and WEll Done!

[1234343333333333]

anyone please, who sings the song and whats the title, and where could i find it, it begins at 1:28:17 lyrics.. "it's memories of mine" ??? thanks

[ElleRigby]

Interesting film. Not a documentary, by what I understand the word "documentary" to mean. It's an opinion film which is still worth watching, so long as the audience keeps in mind that the film is skewed by the maker's own agenda.

[jose1982one]

I guess if your into Revisionist History and The sky is falling/gore/michael moore propaganda,then this film is for you.

[armedpartisan]

This was the one issue that I decided to research and I found such glaring fallacies from the information presented in this film that I find it highly improbable that any other information presented in this film could be considered 100% accurate. But one thing is for certain, it most certainly is 100% rhetoric.

[armedpartisan]

...with this new threat. Jackson's force also included members of the Creek tribe who were enemies of the Seminole and Choctaw Tribes that were allied with the British and later the Blacks in the Negro Fort.

Therefore, contrary to the way it is presented in this film, the attack on the Negro Fort was not prompted solely by white racism, nor was the assault made exclusively by whites. This was a war like any other war with neither side having clean hands.

[armedpartisan]

...over land, by foot and hoof, was very difficult through the marshy wilderness. The obvious way to resupply Fort Scott was by the Apalachicola River which passed by both forts. The Black Soldiers in the Negro Fort fired on an American naval resupply vessel, killing four Americans as they rightly interpreted the existence of Fort Scott as a threat to their own survival. This was, however, an act of war.

Jackson, fresh from victory at New Orleans, assembled a force on the GA border

[armedpartisan]

...whom they had recruited to fight the Americans. The armed and trained blacks in the fort, who were now without pay or resupply from the British, began to conduct raids across the GA/FL border for food and supplies. News spread far and wide of these raids, prompting other slaves to escape and join this band of marauders.

An American fort, Fort Scott, had been established to prevent the British from launching an all out invasion from what became the Negro Fort during the war.

[armedpartisan]

This film did peak my interest in re-learning a little more about Jackson's raid on "the Negro Fort", as the way it was presented in the film didn't mesh with my memory of what I had learned. There's a reason for that, and it's that it didn't happen the way it is portrayed at all. The Negro Fort was a British fort established in Spanish Florida during the War of 1812. After the US and British truce, and Jackson's victory at New Orleans, the British abandoned the fort and the escaped slaves...

[armedpartisan]

I'm somewhat perturbed as a Floridian to watch a film about Florida by another Floridian who has nothing positive to say about Florida's history at all. It's sorta like watching a film about the history of Germany that only focuses on the Black Death, the 12 years of the Third Reich, and the evils committed in the GDR by the Stasi.

History is not always pretty, but not all of it is bad either. A little perspective might be nice. Also, there are huge gaps in the history, decades at times.

[capnjebus]

I wont watch this movie because of the title but judging from the comments when you don't finish the job you've got to deal with the consequences.

[OkeeHadjo]

About 10 of us watched it together. Some BS and some truth. A few of the younger ones never knew about the poor vets who died in the great storm and the rest of us had forgotten. But most us us have never forgotten the deplorable racism that was aimed at the seminole as well as the blacks. It shows in our distrust and dislike of the crackers. We guess you in far away places will not not understand and can not understand but it does not matter. We are unconquered still.

[gojoe31]

I really like the blugrass music in this film didn't know it was popular in florida but after thinking about it I guess it would be popular to florida natives a few years ago. The music is true art.

[jaymaru1976]

my God could the music be crappier please?

[aachelabelaaron]

no mention is made of black federal troops' role in florida during the civil war, nor the black troop "mutiny" (used ironically) there. no mention is made of the insanity of the 1920's land boom speculation that ruined both tens of thousands of acres and lives (leaving us nothing but marx brothers' "the cocoanuts" to clue us in to the truth). of course the historical role of drugs and mafia and republican/cuban-american collusion in miami's development is kept more invisible then others...

[martiwf0]

Texas has a lot of the same distorted history. Its annexation was never ratified by the US Senate; therefore, it was still an independant country when it joined the Confederacy. Check the books and you will not find congressmen representing Texas as a state until 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. It was supposed to have become a state in 1845, twenty five years earlier. Also, Davy Crockett was captured over a mile from the Alamo, brought back, and shot.

[mrprushoth]

is there sex in it?

[ferngully67]

This was a very informative look into the sordid history of Florida. There were so many facts that I had never learned in school. I like the saying 'All histories are invisible, some are just more invisible than others.' This should be a must see in high school history class. I really like how the filmmaker used lots of archival footage. Definitely watch this movie!

[modeerrr]

gooooooooooooooooood

[KWalsh554]

There's no mention of Tristan de Luna in this video, or did I miss it? He founded the oldest known Spanish colony in the state. This, along with skipping over the Windover archaeology site (one of the most important archaeology sites in North America), makes me think the actual history of the state takes a back seat to the film maker's own social agenda.

[jumpoffmountaineers]

that seems like pretty specious reasoning to me. what "socal agenda" could be advanced by failing to reference an ephemeral spanish colony that didn't have nearly the significance of other early european settlements because it wasn't truly settled until well into the18th century? they lived there for less then two months in 1559 before they decided it was best to abandon the place!

[jumpoffmountaineers]

it would seem that you're the one with an agenda, and from the tenor of your griping i'm almost certain its a conservative one.  are you ever "off" or does your vigilance against all liberal media know no bounds?

[cinesimonj]

Do you know the difference between Archeology and Anthropology?

Or is everything that doesn't fit your standard simply part of a vast left wing conspiracy designed to turn the white man and freedom loving Americans into slaves?

[jbrinton]

I enjoyed this documentary. It was an interesting look at part of Florida's history that most people who move here don't realize. For those of us who were born and raised in Florida, you live and breath the history whether you know it or not... Overall, I think some very important parts of Florida history are left out, mostly its more recent history, like the arrival of the Cubans and the many other immigrants from around the world... You could do an entire documentary on this subject alone.

[shlabotnikj]

lighten up idiots. its youtube.

[redbugiii]

The Lady singing at the begining says

"In a Nutshell, we"re all as one" !!!

what about out of a nutshell!1LOL (1999)

O.k., O.k., I want back in the nutshell now!!!

(2009) and I'll never leave it again!!!!!!

[sw05fl]

The whole of the American History is all fabricated, even to this day. Even today, people have no idea as to what is really taking place. All Americans live in la la land. To sum up the truth.

America's true powers to be are the most self centered, power coniving, decitful humans ever to rome the earth. Having inslaved all of humanity for over 250 years now and to use these people for any and all purposes imanagable.

[Snufferson]

All nations/races/whatever are good and evil -- no getting around it.

[sent2null]

How about telling us what you think is not factual instead of just making a blanket denouncement of the documentary. So America did not carry out attacks on Spanish land? Jackson did not carry out a campaign of genocide against the Seminoles and runaway slaves? Please oh grand historians of youtube, share with us your wisdom on the "truth" if what is in this video are "agenda" and distortion. Otherwise STFU.

[Snufferson]

Well, for one, do you have proof Disney didn't like Jews? Putting that in there is not factual. If you have no evidence, you should've kept that out. Also, how do you know that ALL crackers felt superior to blacks? I liked the film, but your opinion should've been kept out. By the way, where can I find a list of the music from the movie?

[maplecreekjunction]

disney manufactured propaganda films like "the making of a nazi", that's quite provable

[rambo2700]

blacks are dying like flys in Chicago but they don't count because they are being killed by black people. no one white to blame.

[seminolewar]

One of the worst pieces of documentary made on Florida history. And also quite bizarre. Poorly researched, many things that aren't true, and extremely old archival footage from the state archives used. Should be viewed for entertainment purposes only.

[Snufferson]

It was bizarre indeed, but for some reason I enjoyed it. I over looked the factual mistakes and apparent agenda. I found the soundtrack creepy, but enjoyable. Wish I could find some of the songs.

[sw05fl]

I was born in 1948 and both my father and grandfather spent their lives working for Rockefella corperations and foundations. From studing these archives for 50 years, I can tell you that anything you thought you knew to true is for sure the furthest thing from the truth that you could ever have dreamed.