He just pushed against me harder. Shut it. Please.. Just dont do anything… I stopped talking when I felt him drag a blade across my cheek, then my n...ck. He held it there, against my neck as he whispered into my ear. Dont speak unless I tell you to. You make a sound I will not hesitate to kill you. Right here. Right now. Understand? I just nodded my head. I couldnt think straight. What was happening. He moved his blade and grabbed my arms tightly dragging me over to his car. No please dont do. I had ta admit that we hadn't yet, but I wuz shore willin' ta give it a try.The owner of the paper, he wuz also the editor, printer, an' reporter, wuz the victim of a protection racket of the crudest kind. The crooks didn't fool around; they jus' showed up one day an' said that ifen he didn't pay them not ta, they wuz gonna bust up his place. He couldn't afford ta replace his press an' type ifen it wuz busted, so he agreed ta pay.He started off payin' $1 a week, but the demands grew 'til now he. Economy seemed nearly full of black men with only a few white people on the flight.Her full bust and blonde hair seemed to fascinate the two men and the short denim skirt she had worn without thinking a great deal about it had been a mistake. She had barely sat down before the black men on either side of her had casually dropped their hands onto her bare thighs.The wrestling match had been going on for an hour as she sought to keep their hands off her. They had been polite and chatty and. Nirmala wasn’t sure what the problem was; all she knew was there had been a big argument about her dad doing something with Auntie Amrita.Across the street, Jack, 51, complained, “25 years with this company and they send me to the worst territory in the country! How can we sell to restaurants in this hick town?”Jack, and the new trainee Norma, 29, had hit every restaurant in this Alabama town without making a single sale. Worse for Jack, he had a reputation to keep up. When out of town and away.