By adamg on Thu., 6/4/2020 - 11:43 am 
Photo by Chris Lang.
Aw, looks like the Fruits and Veggies Gang is all growed up and back living in West Roxbury. Litnana spotted their work on the retaining wall along the CVS parking lot on Centre Street this morning. Despite a doctored-up fake flier alleging Antifa was coming to West Roxbury on Monday to level the place, in fact, the vigil they were allegedly going to burst out of was entirely peaceful and nobody went down Centre Street looting.
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I think they better start checking...
By Ward8Mahatma
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 5:03pm
... Bourne and all the other national cemeteries for major soil disturbance since the WW II vets, including my Dad, have been rolling in their graves since Pvt. BoneSpurs’s fascistic Operation Co-op The Bible the other day.
If it wasn't for double standards...
By CB
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 2:22pm
We wouldn't have any standards at all.
The people that are authoritatively dismissing Antifa as a figment of Sean Hannity's fevered imagination are the same ones that assured us, for three years, that Trump and his crew were Roosian operatives. Just Wait Until the Mueller Report Comes Out!
This site has become the online equivalent of Eagan and Braude's Echo Chamber of the Air.
Moscow Mitch
By Daan
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 4:54pm
If not for Moscow Mitch Putin could no use his "athleticism" to dominate the hamburglar of the White House, the bloated gasbag, the ambulatory puddle of silly putty that occupies the White House today.
Just wait until the reality of the Trumpy-Puty marriagecomes out.
Incorrect
By Scratchie
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 5:37pm
Not really.
Per other posts
By anon
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 3:43pm
How to we know it Westie kids, were you there. Could have been a pink hair J.P. cyclist trying to make peaceful West Rox residents look poorly.
JP kids wouldn't be caught dead in Westie
By adamg
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 4:40pm
And where are you from?
From?
By anon
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 4:46pm
Roslindale unlike you!
You a Rozzie rat?
By adamg
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 4:47pm
Or just a poseur?
Pro tip:
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 4:59pm
Where your mom happened to live when you fell out of her isn't a life accomplishment.
Sounds like someone is from Dedham
By Oranges
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 7:19pm
It's not all bad, you have a hooters now.
Yeah, but the porn shop ...
By adamg
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 9:26pm
Moved up the road to West Roxbury.
What?
By jennifersostano2001
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 10:15pm
That porn shop that used to be next to Little Peach is long gone
Yes, because the good burghers of Westie...
By adamg
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 8:33am
Firebombed it.
I'm talking about the sex-toys shop on VFW Parkway, you know, Rte. 1, just past the McDonald's, the new Popeyes, the Burger King and the Taco Bell, the part of the road that everybody thinks is Dedham, but no, it's West Roxbury.
facepalm
By jennifersostano2001
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 7:16pm
Ok... that one.
That one is so non-descript that I barely remember it's there - there are a few other businesses there too that I wonder if many people go into.
For what it's worth - I think the WR/Dedham line on the VFW (formerly Rt1 at least colloquially) is right after where ChuckECheese used to be and before Ocean State Job Lot
This is a stale post so there won't be a deluge of people to correct me if I'm wrong sadly.
Really?
By anon
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 7:05pm
Better tell that to my kid’s friends who are from JP.
Well I know it wasn't you.
By MattyC
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 8:52pm
Well I know it wasn't you. The message on the wall was spelled correctly.
Really, everyone?
By ActuallyFromHereKid
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 4:10pm
1. The graffiti is upsetting and I hope it will be taken down swiftly. Believe it or not, it has been an upsetting week for a lot of people in West Roxbury. There are allys here.
2. I have lived in West Roxbury for my entire life and know that this does not represent the majority sentiment that currently reside around me. The neighborhood is diversifying and we do care.
3. The majority of people who grew up in West Roxbury can't afford to live here any more! Guess what? I don't recognize any of my neighbors from my childhood! They are mostly priced out or sold out for the south shore or Florida or suburbs or elsewhere! The people who used to cause trouble are gone, or in their late 70s and on the way out. We can all take a collective breath.
4. We do have a few hardware stores, so you're spot on with that tools comment. For the most part though, the people of West Roxbury are (sit down for this one) EXACTLY like the people of JP and Roslindale! (Gasp! I hope you aren't clutching your urban pearls too tightly - I know it is scary to think that people from West Roxbury might actually be like you!) We are even like people from other parts of Boston! Actually we are almost 1:1 in terms of culture with Roslindale, Newton and Brookline at this point! I challenge you to bike on the VFW and discern the borders from us and our neighbors! (Hint: there is barely a difference visually or culturally)
5. It is really unfortunate that what should be inspiring and empowering messages to do better as a society are missing entirely from this board, and these comments devolve into grating attacks on an entire neighborhood. I normally love Uhub, but lately it is getting hard to love. What if whoever did this is from Roslindale? It is pretty easy to walk over the border. But, I guess it is easier to "other" the people next door and hate, right? We went from a Tweet saying "Guess the Fruits and Veggies are back" to "Looks like the Fruits and Veggies are back" That is definitely one way to spin a narrative, huh? How much further are you willing to stretch things to justify how you feel about a place based on what you assume about people from there?
The tone in these comments is so smug and the understanding of West Roxbury is so, so far from reality. Does anyone here even actually know a real person from West Roxbury? Doesn't sound like it.
Key takeaway - uplift. Imagine the difference you could make.
That's amazing. You called
By Miss M
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 6:45pm
That's amazing. You called yourself an ally, then spent six paragraphs talking about yourself and your overwhelmingly white neighborhood.
I Do
By Anon
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 6:48pm
I know plenty of people from West Roxbury. People who were born and raised there. And yes, there are a lot of lovely, wonderful people...but
I've also met some of the most racist, classist, NIMBYish " Why can't the blacks just get over it but here's my screed about bussing even though I went to private school" chip on their shoulder jerks, in the largest bunches I've ever encountered.
There's this weird dichotomy where they're all about being "from Boston" city living tough guys and taking advantage of the benefits of living in a large progressive city, while also hating and being terrified of huge portions of that city and interacting with it as a citizen as little as possible.
They have a chip on their shoulder where they hate on the richer tonier suburbs while also being desperate to not let outsiders into their little enclave. There's also a weird obsession among this crew about how great and amazing West Roxbury is when it's pretty similar to every other middle class mostly white suburb in the state. Which is why I think the stupid "antifa" rumor was able to spread so quickly. They truly believe everyone who isn't them wants to be them, or wants what they have, and can't believe no one else thinks they're that special.
Doesn’t matter what you say
By anon
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 7:15pm
People are going to hate on West Roxbury without ever talking to most of us. Double standards, you know. That’s ok. We’ll keep collecting food for those in need and contributing to many causes without all the fanfare. And when things open up again, lots of fundraisers will be held as they always have been. I don’t care what anyone thinks of me or my town. If people want to hate my neighborhood or me without even knowing me, that’s on them. It will not affect me because I know this town and it’s people.
That's very inspiring...
By lbb
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 9:18am
...but they're still not gonna cast you to star in an "uplift" themed Pepsi commercial.
ANITFA
By Milwaukee Mike
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 5:09pm
Magat 1: "There! How's that?"
Magat 2: "Terribly rude."
Magat 1: "Wait, isn't that the point?"
Magat 2: "Look, if we expect ANTIFA to participate in 'The Most Dangerous Game,' we should at least have the courtesy to tell them when it starts."
Magat 1: "Yeah, true. Should I send around an invite and coordinate schedules?"
Magat 2: "How about 'NOW'? 'NOW' works."
Magat 1: [Spray paints "NOW"] "I like it--has a real sense of immediacy to it."
People called Romanes they go
By MattyC
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 8:53pm
People called Romanes they go the house?
Nice deep cut there!
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 10:25pm
I had completely forgotten that one.
This time, instead of
By MattyC
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 12:16am
This time, instead of translating from the original Aramaic, it was from Russian
I am interested in Magoo's opinion...
By bostondriver
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 9:44pm
on this one.
Lot of wierd tribalism here
By jennifersostano2001
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 10:24pm
I'm from and live in West Roxbury but have lived in Roslindale too and don't identify with either specifically - neither is as homogeneous as people believe to any degree
West Roxbury? Roslindale?
By redheadedjen
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 9:34am
West Roxbury? Roslindale? What about the other Boston neighborhood bordering West Roxbury,. Hyde Park. We get forgotten about.
When something actually happens in Hyde Park ...
By adamg
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 3:27pm
I'll try to cover it.
I've been reading UHub for ten years
By erik g
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 10:55pm
and this is the sickest burn I've ever seen administered.
Too many woods...
By jennifersostano2001
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 7:20pm
Too much wooded land between WR and Hyde Park to consider it a neighboring neighborhood... just an opinion
High-five for the title, Adam
By bibliotequetres...
Fri, 06/05/2020 - 2:24pm
High-five for the title, Adam!
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