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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (23107)	3/15/2008 9:14:05 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224731

PATERSON TOOK ON RADICALSMarch 15, 2008 -- BOTH admirers and critics of David Paterson have wondered whether the soft-spoken governor-to-be can survive the cutthroat arena of Albany. But in his new anti-Rudy Giuliani book, "Why Blacks Fear 'America's Mayor,' " Peter Noel says legally blind Paterson is no pushover and "has openly brawled with New York's most volatile black radicals, nearly coming to blows." Noel writes that back in 1998, Paterson was called an "Uncle Tom" and "sellout" by a bullying crowd of NY Black Power Organizing Committee members after he called for the arrest of Louis Farrakhan aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad for allegedly inciting teens to riot and kill cops. "Paterson was no Uncle Tom - not by anyone's definition . . . he remained a counterbalance to the argument that outspoken black politicians were easily intimidated by uptown militants or downtown neo-fascists," Noel writes. nypost.com