"Oneco" Is Florida's Most Marginalized Community - Abandoned And Forgotten In Poverty

[@bradhampton6457]

“ONE CO.” Oneco has always been a poor area in Manatee county. I’m 4th Gen native of Manatee/Sarasota counties. 70 yrs old. It’s been this way as long as I can remember.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

alot of people say it was even worse (hard to imagine)

[@MikeMatsumoto-v4x]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSI can confirm. When I was a kid,around the recession, it was a scary place to be at night.

[@George-fh9zm]

It is pronounced One co? That's what I thought the first time I saw the name.

[@Syl-Vee]

The only people who should be embarrassed are those who look down on the diverse and enterprising people of Oneco. This is where the poor can get a foothold and accumulate the resources to move toward a better life. At one point, I had 5 jobs, 2 of which were self employed. Oneco does not need to be gentrified. If it was, many of the people there could probably not afford the property taxes. You are correct in realizing that the homeless have been herded into this area so as not to upset the better off people in the region. I would also like to point out that addiction does not always come before homelessness, it often follows it. Thank you for mentioning the vibrant patchwork of cultures in Oneco. BTW that is a historic cemetery, where John Ringling's brother is buried.

[@ikreate4u]

💯 why should they be embarrassed to be poor? That projection on the residents is what is wrong with our society. Most people are one -two paychecks away from homelessness. I am glad he pointed out how the city pushes the homeless into certain areas to become invisible. Sarasota and Bradenton are notorious for only boosting, funding and maintaining the tourist focused areas.

[@Bella_forever_]

Thank u for this video, it's nice to watch a video on things that no one else covers

[@tristan583]

Unless someone is forced to live there , it’s completely a choice

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

not everyone can make $10,000 a month to live in LWR. people got limitations

[@kevinc8811]

⁠​⁠@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS$10,000 a month? That’s what the poor people who live in LWR make a month. I have a customer there that pays 10k a month just in property taxes. Needless to say they have a very nice place.

[@urbanitesgarage3299]

@@kevinc8811 I am friends with the man who owns the most taxed house in manatee county it is 56k a year

[@RD-AJD33]

​@@kevinc8811No one pays 10k a month in property taxes 😂. I live here

[@kevinc8811]

@@RD-AJD33 WRONG!!!

[@anarr7411]

People are just surviving in Oneco.

[@francescamiller4340]

The ppl who live there in Oneco could probably fix up the community, but don't bother because some colonizers will just go there & destroy what they fixed out of jealousy, or wanna take over what they built not wanting to help putting any monies into the community.

[@RD-AJD33]

@@francescamiller4340 Get some help, preferably a psychological exam

[@chokloconqueso8446]

the county cleaned up 5th street about 10+ years ago. 5th street USED to have drug dealers on every corner with the streets covered in trash. it looked nice for a couple years, but its regressed again. blaming Oneco’s conditions on imaginary “colonizers” is just foolish. nobody is trying to gentrify Oneco. there are no bougie white “colonizers” trying to buy up a run down urban center mapped like a rat trap when there is PLENTY of open area east of 75 out in LWR & IMG Academy buying up all that empty land south of SR70 & west of 43rd St W. the reason nobody fixes up Oneco is that only a small percentage of its residents own their house & plan on staying for longer than a generation. ppl move to Oneco when theyve run out of other options & GTFO as soon as a better option presents itself. the biggest factor hurting communities like Oneco is LACK OF OWNERSHIP. if u dont own your house & only plan on staying as long as absolutely necessary u are not going to have any kind of vested interest in cleaning up & maintaining the community. Oneco is littered with drugs & trap houses. the only ppl who actually CHOOSE to go back to Oneco when they can afford to live elsewhere are ppl who DO live somewhere else but split the rent on a duplex & run a traphouse out of it. & nobody in the community will ever complain or call the police- its the code of the streets. as long as ppl keep believing everything wrong with their lives is caused by some mysterious “colonizers” holding them back, they will ALWAYS have an excuse to fail & refuse to take accountability

[@Shebasandfleacornelius3rd]

This guy is misinformed and his facts are wrong

[@chokloconqueso8446]

some of it, yes, but most of it is accurate. tough to research an area that hardly anybody knows about & very few ppl ever thought to write down its history.

[@jasoncrandall73]

It's basically "Bradenton". 🤷 I lived in Bradenton for over 10 years & always drove through it. Just West of Oneco is older subdivisions of Bradenton.

[@chokloconqueso8446]

just West of Oneco is 14th street W/US41. none of that is Bradenton City, just more unincorporated neighborhoods like Bayshore Gardens. Bradenton City limits north of Oneco dont start until 30th Ave, literally 27 blocks away, and its western boundary doesnt start until 43rd St W & even then its the 4900 block, so 29 blocks west & 8 blocks north of Oneco. there isn’t a single section of Oneco that comes within 20+ blocks of touching Bradenton City limits. everything down there is unincorporated. better for taxes.

[@chokloconqueso8446]

Oneco is actually a contraction of “One Company” or “One Co.” apparently as recently as the ‘50s/‘60s Oneco was nothing but unincorporated farmland & fields with just “One Company” operating there. IDK how long youve lived here but i moved around 2000 & Oneco- ESPECIALLY 5th Street E- was MUCH WORSE throughout the early 2000’s. back then Oneco was predominantly Black (including Bahamians, Haitians & Jamaicans) but has increasingly become a Latin neighborhood… it’s even referred to as “Omigo” (a take on “Amigo”) due to the high Latin population. idk if i’d say it’s Florida’s MOST marginalized community- there are absolutely more impoverished areas in Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, etc. nearly every medium-sized Florida city/suburb in a larger metro area is going to have a neighborhood like this.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

The more impoverished areas you mentioned have sidewalks and street lights

[@FungiTech]

I'm from Fl and never heard of it, lol, That's rough.

[@podunkpennsylvania292]

Oneco isnt a bad place. Its kinda like a big flea market. It can be a fun place to spend a day It is pronounced OH - NEE - KO BTW

[@2354mula]

I currently live in oneco right off 15th and 63rd. Majority of what you said is b.s. i love this community and im proud to live here. You should try talking to the residents, instead of making up false narrative of the community

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

? Bro, its a poor area. Nothing wrong with that but you can’t be in denial about the problems. You don’t want sidewalks and lights for the safety of your people there? They deserve better

[@chokloconqueso8446]

15th & 63rd is the extreme southeast corner of Oneco. u must live in Villa del Sol or some trailer/apartment complex behind KFC or Pick Your Part. thats damn near Whitfield. if u lived off 5th or 9th closer to 57th u wouldnt try to sell us this fantasy that Oneco is your average middle class neighborhood. be for real bra.

[@lynnrussell1641]

Oneco is like a Second World country

[@ronlatronica3112]

The Cuban tire shop always took care of me.

[@StarwaterCWS]

How is anything marginalized? Ohh… that’s a commie term.

[@alcabron1789]

Hell yeah brother!!! 🇺🇸💪🏽 if these people just pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and worked 90 hours a week they’d be enjoying red blooded American freedom just like you and me!!! 🔫🇺🇸✝️🍺🥓🛻🍔

[@derrynelson4637]

@@alcabron1789they actually want to but when You Have Commie Conservative Republican White Supremacy. Cancel Historical Facts like In American History about Slavery, Racism, Segregation and Suppression of Voting Rights especially of Minorities over 60 -150 Years Ago. And Overturning Certain Laws like Affirmative Action and DEI. And only White Folks should Have the Legal Rights to rule. I call that Communist with a bit of Marxism and Fascism and Authoritarianism. Even if you Have Black Republican Conservatives that turned they back on their own People .

[@ossoduro7794]

"marginalized" is their way of defining - feckless, fragile, inapt, incompetent, ineducable, useless...just a way of trying to excuse their futility.

[@alcabron1789]

@@ossoduro7794 You got it champ!! 🧠🇺🇸🧐 There’s no such thing as corrupt city planners, terrible public schools, monopolies that gouge prices on basic goods or greedy corporations that would underpay their workers, they don’t exist! All just excuses for the LAZY libs!!!! Thank God and Trump that I’m not one of ‘em 🙌🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✝️✝️✝️

[@StarwaterCWS]

@@ossoduro7794 no coincidence that ‘marginalized’ is synonymous with ‘slug’ ‘Leech’ ‘whiner’ ‘entitled’ ‘dung heap’ and ‘feces.’

[@urbanitesgarage3299]

I was born in sarasota and lived within 5 minutes from here my entire life, i have never traveled up until a month ago to see what the florida panhandle had to offer, i was blown away i figured up there would be worse i was completely wrong. never knew i was living in such a shithole. my dad lives in shadybrook thats right across from that speedys mini mart place, his house flooded 3 times within 5 years, the speedys place original owner was murdered just in his store his brother runs it now, alot of drugs and homeless though ive never been robbed (yet thank god) i went to that abel elementary school it was fine. As i watch further into the video i see alot of other places where i know people have been MURDERED! Geez i need to get the hell out of this town

[@orangeandslinky]

I went there every weekend to go to the Roma Flea Market in the 90's. Also the first Big Lots was there. I didn't think about crime at all, but I was never there at night. I took 57the to 15th street. When Roma Flea market closed, I never went back.

[@chokloconqueso8446]

Roma been gone a looooong time

[@DG-sn2js]

I remember driving from Arcadia to Manatee Junior College back in 1976 on SR 70 there was a section of roadway that was still gravel road! Amazing traveling on asphalt to gravel for a mile and then back to asphalt highway!

[@chokloconqueso8446]

Oneco is not far enough east to be part of Lakewood Ranch. LWR is out by I75, quite a few miles east of Oneco. youre thinking of Lockwood Ridge, Eastgate, Creekwood, Braden River… all very nice neighborhoods completely separated from Oneco by industrial areas, a few remaining farmlands/fields. the boundaries of Oneco are (roughly) SR70/53rd Ave on the North, US301 on the East, 63rd Ave on the South, US41/Tamiami Tr/14th St W on the West. North of Oneco is Samoset & East Bradenton which are, arguably, just as disenfranchised as Oneco. to the South is Whitfield/Tallevast- the unofficial buffer zone between Bradenton & Sarasota- but once u hit University u are getting fairly close to Newtown which is Sarasota’s marginalized community. IMO there is no “nice area” bordering Oneco. Lockwood to the East & Whittfield/Tallevast to the south have very nice homes but they make use of fields, retention ponds, etc. to basically buffer themselves from Oneco, similar to how Lockwood, Creekwood, etc. buffers LWR from Oneco & the rest of coastal Bradenton.

[@ronlatronica3112]

Cafe Havana has good batidos. Right on. I always would get a cortadito with a meal.

[@Mark-v5r2i]

This is such a sad as* Country. Heartless, soulless, depressing, despondent, foreboding, ominous, etc. 90o/o don't give a shi*. Every street is a Dead End!!!!

[@davidmichael7422]

You have great videos

[@dandeman46]

You make it out to be much worse than it is. This area is by far not the worst area in the country. You obviously have not traveled to some of this countries true $hitholes.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

??? I been to all the worst cities in usa..

[@charlesyates6687]

Need to get the homeless together to camp out and protest on the courthouse lawns on October first .

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Were not activist we just report

[@kipjohnson7586]

TU Jose, Coincidentally I too traveled Oneco Saturday. Went to Ollies and Winn Dixie. One word-Disappoined.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

It’s vastly poverty

[@tfFlyer-e9w]

Used to hang out on the Island in the 2000’s , had buddies there would play basketball at the park. It had kinda a hood’ feel to it then. Not very diverse pretty much just a black and white population . Oneco kinda sucks

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

The island is a particular part of Oneco or the whole place? thats a local term i hear all the time and am still confused

[@minimouse7579]

​​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSno 😕 The Island consists of Anna Maria to Coquina/Bradenton Beach. Oneco is/was popular with visitors/tourists wishing to obtain party supplies not commercially available 🙄 Think horticulture, which was its biggest industry back to the 1880s. It has become an industrial region of Bradenton and has been horribly abused. The southern end (Tallevast) is and will be suffering from toxicity (radioactive) for another few decades. (more like a millennia 😪) The community has changed plenty in the past 40yrs but has seen little improvement. Between the train de-railings and toxic dumping, I'm surprised glow-in-the-dark, apocalyptic zombies aren't roaming the streets. Be safe out there 👌

[@minimouse7579]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSoh yeah, it's been awhile (20+yrs) since the poisoning of Tallevast was announced and a little over 10yrs since remediation efforts began ... yet, let's not forget ... "Ten years after the start of Lockheed’s remediation efforts, there is a growing feeling of discontent among Tallevast residents, who say that the cleanup effort has failed and that the plume has actually grown. Moreover, much of Tallevast continues to be without a connection to sanitary sewer, while big business expands onto former farm land with little communication with residents. In addition, Tallevast residents say officials at Lockheed Martin, Manatee County Government and the Florida DEP are unresponsive to their questions and concerns." And that, ladies and gents is exactly why Oneco has been virtually abandoned by all except industries that continue their poisonous practices, whilst govt keeps "subsidizing" them. 😔😒

[@minimouse7579]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS the beryllium contamination, now more than 25yrs old doesn't seem to be responding well to remediation efforts. And that, is the rest of the story ... except for this small detail ... the plume appears to be growing 😯😔

[@minimouse7579]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I honestly forget the beryllium grade that was reported, however, beryllium-10 is the radioactive one and its half-life is 1.5 million years 😟 The original contamination occurred over a period of time (not a single incident) and the discovery was not made public for several years. Now, 25yrs later ... the problems associated with it are increasing.

[@AshaBlack-wy3ol]

It has a lot of restaurants to be such a poor place. I always purchase my groceries in the barrio you get great quality at a good price

[@ossoduro7794]

4:30 "There's a significant Haitian community here." Perhaps therein lies the problem, because Haiti is the crown jewel of what melanized people can accomplish when left to their own devices.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

You know absolutely nothing about haiti or its people. They were paying France for their freedom until 1960. Most Haitians living in bradenton have 2 jobs good hard working people. U don’t know how hard working and industrious they are. The Haiti u see on fox news is only port au prince you need to learn more about how people in rural Haiti live its a paradise even Americans move there to escape the hell we have created.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

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[@ossoduro7794]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Right; I'm the one who knows nothing. Try Sierra Leone on for size then. Maybe go for a delicious mud cookie in rural Haiti. Now that's culture.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

@@ossoduro7794 all Caribbean people are brothers. Haitians are beautiful people and their culture is beautiful. From their food to their music to their people and language. Your uneducated speaking from hate and ignorance. Haitians are beautiful people I have worked alongside them my whole time in Florida people with good work ethics and reliable you just don’t know.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

@@ossoduro7794 so what when i lived in cuba i used to eat paper from hunger? Say it to a hatians face dont come here behind a scene name fronting online

[@davidmajer3652]

You are an excellent tour guide. You do a solid job of interpreting the local. Enjoying this little ride while drinking my coffee on a Sunday morning.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

🙃

[@fabledcasper]

Welcome to Sorrysota once again xD

[@joywhite2447]

What is your favorite Mexican food truck? I like this video

[@CEsantos87]

Good informative video

[@Joe-l5x]

Negative

[@southfloridastunts3541]

Bro I've watched a few of your videos because I have lived in Bradenton, palmetto my whole life,my dad is homeless in palmetto, it's bad it's way worse than it's ever been.maybe we can get together and start getting the word out,let me know brother