"Sapphire" is not "black" but a white woman of mixed ancestry. Claiming that a person who is physically white is really "black" is the equivalent of saying that black ancestry is super-inferior. Morally, it's no different from calling a Jew a "non-Aryan." I found the film to be racist and insulting, an ode to the myth of white racial "purity." I had the impression that the film makers were telling the audience that Sapphire and her unborn child had to die in order to prevent her from destroying alleged white racial "purity" by marrying a "pure" white guy. I also found it significant that Sapphire's "pure" white fiancé was such a weakling. The film makers seemed to be implying that the "tainted" Sapphire was too inferior to attract anyone but an "inferior" white man. The fact that the "hero" detectives are constantly denouncing Sapphire as "coloured" and proclaiming her unfit to be "white" tells you about the racism that seemed to motivate the people who produced this film.
Review of Sapphire
