Residents of the pre-existing town of Sommerville would be reticent. It was a big change for New Orleans such as doing community work in lieu of developing this new farm. Eight hundred acres would be turned into a productive organic farm the largest in the region. A monument erected in the mid-eighteen hundreds stands for the resistance against any invasion from the north. The mentality of the town's residents thinks there is a larger design behind the new northern presence that has nothing to do with the development of an organic farm. The community center is a point of contention.
The mayor who resigned over the issue and then returned to fight change, doesn't like the idea of the town turning into an evacuation center, so he said initially but when he was further interviewed up came an issue I did not want to hear concerning the presence of Canadians in their area. In other words all the mayor had to say from the beginning was that he would be against the setting up of a relief center or any foreign funded project that would invite Canadians into the country to help former New Orleans residents regain a livelihood. Obviously the donor of the project went about the project with a profit in mind, which wouldn't in this capitalist world.
Today the mayor is against the building of the community center but the town council is for the building of it. I would be in favor of the center, which would help evacuees that is not going to put a realistic burden on the town. Maybe had the word evacuee has turned a good deal sour. People should be educated not be fearful even though there are references to those new residents being potentially dangerous to the former residents. Violence can happen anywhere and is independent of race. Black people no longer need the validation of a white person to get ahead in life. All this has to do with a terrible past and the distinction between plantation owners and their slaves in the American south. It all has to do with a previous history of race relations. Solve that and the experiment of Canadaville will be solved, regardless of what the mayor of Summerville thinks.
