About Us

Welcome to The Official White House Boys Organization Website.  Please view the Documentary Trailer and Read the Newspaper Articles, and TV coverage to learn more about our story:

WHAT IS A WHITE HOUSE BOY?
(One Brother's View )       
The day we walked out of Marianna or Okeechobee, every one of us who survived the beatings, earned the right to become known as “a White House Boy." The physical pain, mental anguish and terrifying fear will live with us until we die. The after/side effects are never entirely extinguished from our memories. We learn how to hold them in check … most of the time. 

    We become as chameleons, developing the ability to blend in and remain anonymous, watching from without, scared to become part of anything because if we do, we probably will just get another “hurt.” It’s much simpler and safer for us to sit outside the main circle and not have to choose sides and make decisions. 
We have our opinion on things, you can bet on that, but it is hard to put our feelings into words because where we grew up you were never allowed to express an opinion without the fear of receiving another late-night beating. Sort of taught us how to ‘hold things in’, you know keep it all repressed. (So that’s where that comes from???) Plus most of us get flustered quite easily, especially when it comes to things like talking in front of other people. That just isn’t one of our natural given gifts.
    We come from many different backgrounds and areas of the state but we were all sent to reform school from a Florida city and county, sentenced by a Florida Judge, Truant Officer or Police Officer.  We all received an ‘indeterminate sentence’ --one with no expiration or ending date. Not a single one of us were ever read our rights, had a lawyer or were given the opportunity to defend ourselves or hear and question witnesses. Our civil rights were violated at every step of the illegal machine we were herded through-- like cattle headed to slaughter, just like the Jews in Auschwitz.  
    We are white, black, brown, strong, weak, tall, short, fat, thin, bald, long-haired, sick, well, smart, fast, slow, rich, poor and accompanied by numerous other physical afflictions like "bad backs" and "lower joint problems". We have a wide variety of emotional issues that cover the complete spectrum of mental disability. If it has a name, one of us lives with it. Do we want to talk about it? No! 
    We are everywhere. There are hundreds of us; probably even thousands. Some of us have become moderately successful, while others have climbed the ladder to the top and become rich and successful. But the vast majority of us have only reached success through our families, our children and grandchildren. We relive our youth through helping them be children who are happy, well taken care of and never emotionally or physically abused. This is where we finally learn unconditional love, through those we leave behind.    
    No matter where we work, play or gather we are always going to meet people who don’t understand us, because they’ve never heard our story. We are entitled to receive respect from those who know the horrors and fears that lingered behind that White House Door. But, most of the world outside of Florida doesn’t have a clue what the name even means. It is our goal to change that. We want everybody to recognize the meaning behind the name "White House Boys" and to understand that to be one of the White House victims means that you have been brutalized worse than an animal by the State of Florida -- beaten bloody until you couldn’t walk -- by the State operated facility's supervisors at Marianna and Okeechobee Reforms Schools    
    We were all traumatized from our experience with the state, but in a variety of different ways. For most it was a physical, an emotional and/or even a mental problem. But regardless, we are all White House Boys. 

Written & Submitted By: "Bornacracka" 

TRAILER OF THE WHITE HOUSE BOYS DOCUMENTARY
(This is just the trailer, it is NOT the complete documentary.)

NEWSPAPER AND TV COVERAGE OF OUR HISTORY AND OUR PLIGHT FOR JUSTICE:
(MUCH MORE INFO TO COME! )



READ THE STORY OF A WHITE HOUSE BOY HERE

WANT TO TELL *YOUR* STORY ABOUT LIFE *AFTER* THE WHITE HOUSE, CLICK HERE. If you don't have Adobe Reader to open a .pdf file, then click HERE for the same form in MS Word.  

 

The Official White House Boys Organization
PO Box 2142
Homosassa Springs, FL 34447
theofficialwhitehouseboys@gmail.com