I’ve watched this show a few times and it’s the same format everytime. Prof Beer Summit Gates traces some white persons ancestry and it always leads to their aancestor was a slave owner, then overwhelms that person into white guilt.
He loves to see the expressions on their faces when he tells people that they have slave-holding ancestors. I wish someone would snap back at him and say, “Of course there were slave holders in my American ancestry.....why are YOU surprised?”
Almost anyone with ancestry going back to early America has considerable slavery in the narrative. We don't have just one ggg+grandfather, we have MANY. The slave system is simply the way it was at that time, has been throughout history all over the world, and what is still going on today before our very eyes in many areas in the world.
Many of us, black or white, would find that we are descendants of at least one slave if we went back far enough in Europe, Africa, ...everywhere. Enough already.