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Sapphire apparently has some baggage among the African American community. It was the name of a not-very-admirable character on Amos n Andy, and supposedly has become a very negative stereotype, though I never knew that till I read it recently.
There is an author who calls herself Sapphire. She wrote "Push" which is the basis for the movie "Precious." Sapphire's real name is Ramona and she chose Sapphire because she associated with a billigerent black woman, which I guess she is or thinks she is.

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There was also a singer in the late eighties who is famous for the song "Thinking of You" whose stage name was SaFire. She's Puerto Rican and her real first name is Wilma. (Can't blame her for taking SaFire as a stage name, can you?)

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Those are the only people of that name that I know of, and one is fictional and two used the name for a stage/pen name.

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I think, therefore I judge.