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certainly it musn't be an all-time low, considering that near 0 african americans owned homes prior to 1863 and near 0 african peoples were in america in the 1600s

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Heck, humanity as a whole didn't exist only a few million years ago. And the concept of ownership probably only a bit before that. Jeez, journalism these days, thinking they can ignore billions of years of cosmic history for the sake of an article about modern issues.

To be fair ‘all time’ is an odd choice of words, given that its literal meaning is not the intended meaning, and the intended meaning is unknown. Does the timeframe go back to 1900? Or 1980? Does it go back to friggin Jamestown? The timeframe matters, because the further back it goes, the worse this news is for the Black community.

The editor whiffed with this title...and then proceeded to not mention the timeframe in the article, either.

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