I, for reasons still unknown to me, watched that episode after the controversy erupted.
So nobody else has to, Dorothy’s son is engaged to a much older black woman. Dorothy protests the marriage because her son is so young. The golden girls then host the family of the black woman meets Dorothy and they protest because the son is white. The engaged couple storms off in outrage. The mud mask scenes are barely even bit jokes other than the reveal, Blanche makes an inappropriate sex joke or two, and the black family members storm off after all the women get offended at the negative things said about their respective child.
Later in the evening the mothers get together after the black family members show up at the golden girls’ apartment late at night and without really questioning the knock on the door at that hour let them in. The older women stay up late at night drinking coffee and eating cheesecake for some reason to show that they’re all good people at cross purposes, and jokes are made about how black men are well endowed and Blanche is a whore.
Then the scene shifts to an all night wedding chapel which is somehow a thing in this universe, and there is a standoff. The black woman reveals she is pregnant, and the mothers decide to relent and bless the marriage because they both want to hold a grandbaby... Or that was what I figured was going to happen because by this time I started coming to my senses about how much of my life I was wasting by watching this non-controversy and I turned it off.
So the controversy is that they made peace?
The Golden Girls was a leftist TV show, just like most television shows. Totally progressive, not the least bit conservative. It is just ridiculous for them to go after this show.