I never chose to watch it. I just remember it being the program right before or right after Gilligan's Island which was the only show that really mattered to me. Well, that is after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
I...literally just did.
I presume somewhere in the corporate history someone could find out who invented the fictitious character Ben and when and why. Ultimately, though, does it matter? Even if it should turn out on deep research that there really was an Uncle Ben and he was really good with rice and just happened to be black, it might still be worthwhile to change the brand if enough consumers consider him an inappropriate avatar for their rice, or if the company simply decides to do some insincere virtue signalling that they hope will appeal to people who might object to old Ben. If the rice is good enough the people who are sorry to see Ben go will probably buy the stuff anyway.
I've never considered her "good" or "holy" and said so when she was alive. A noxious person.
He went hard right some time ago and spouted racist and ignorant nonsense, e.g Hitler was "left wing", immigration is evil (it destroys "British identity"), he poses with Union flags, says "England for the English" (the irony, it burns
) and uses fascist imagery, spouts Islamophobic bollocks (he's a big supporter of 'For Britain's' Anne Marie Waters), compares eating animal flesh is comparable to the Holocaust, refers to Chinese people as a "sub-species" et cetera.
