The Blacklist

July, 1986

Imagine, for a moment, that you own a small family-run business. One day, a group of thugs come to your door and demand that you sell their product and pay for "protection," or your business will be ruined. Those were the bad old days, right?Wrong. Imagine, in the Eighties, that your family business is a chain of convenience stores that stretch from coast to coast. One day, a group of thugs show up at your door and demand that you stop selling a product that they find offensive, or you...

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