A mostly black audience burst into applause here last month when Ken Mehlman, in his first appearance as Republican Party chairman, said "every single American will be able to save and build and own and pass along an asset to their children" under President Bush's proposal to make private investment accounts part of Social Security.
But at a mall in nearby Hyattsville, more than a dozen interviews with blacks yielded only one person who said he might like to try Bush's idea. The rest wondered why Bush wants to inject risk into a program they think works well.
"People would be taking chances with their money," said Rebecca McGraw, 60, a part-time sales assistant from Mount Rainier. "Why mess with something that's already perfect the way it is?" [...]
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