Direct ancestors of King Charles owned slave plantations, documents reveal

Given how common the practice of slavery was in centuries and millennia past, and how recently the last living ancestor of all now-living humans plausibly walked the earth ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02842 ), it is trivial to argue that ~99.9% of now-living humans had many slave-owning direct ancestors. (And that any exceptions would both occur in tiny / very isolated / marginalized minority populations, and be utterly unverifiable.)

So - why the current obsession with the subject? My sense is that identifying & denouncing anything tied to slavery is a current fad among social groups who waste far too much time practicing & posturing over ideology. And, with how sh*tty the future is looking for the younger generations now, anything that lets them denounce older people is probably extra-attractive.