Finding Your Roots (PBS)

This is the other ancestry show. The same cross-section of famous people get to undergo the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. journey into their past. But Mr. Gates has an agenda. He wants them to confront slavery of African-Americans from both sides of the divide.

In this episode with Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, Gates stretched the point about one of (or two) of Dax’s forebears who owned a least one slave. It gets tiresome to watch him do this, week in and week out. Sure, he has a one man’s axe to grind, but we’re the ones getting ground down.

In the end, I think I’m going to stop watching this show. Who’s with me?