At worst, in your “community development” spirit you might create just enough problems to get someone shot after your vacation ends and you rush back to your middleclass neighborhoods where your friends make jokes about “spics” and “wetbacks.”

This quote is found in Illich on the third page of the document page 318 at the top. The way that it is functioning here is that it speaks to a group of people going down to do “community development” or service to the community to build or perform maintenance to the village or thing. This ties in with our definition of “to perform routine maintenance or repair, work on, particularly a motor vehicle or thing”