Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls for a blackface joke, which featured stars Rue McClanahan and Betty White wearing mud masks, according to Deadline. Michael girlfriend's girlfriend, Lorraine, and her family arrive, shortly after Blanche (McClanahan) and Rose (White) have applied a dark brown mud masks. In poor taste: Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls for a blackface joke, which featured stars Rue McClanahan and Betty White wearing mud masks'This is mud on our faces, we’re not really Black ,' Rose says, as she attempts to break the tension. Rose asks, referring to a song created to honor Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The hit sitcom, which ran from 1985–1992, joins a number of popular television shows that have episodes being taken down or edited due to characters in blackface.

Source: Daily Mail June 28, 2020 21:11 UTC