Of these, I would go with Sapphire, for sure. I mean, I watched the show!
OK,
Wade defended her character against criticism of being a negative stereotype of African American women. In a 1973 interview, she stated “I know there were those who were offended by it, but I still have people stop me on the street to tell me how much they enjoyed it. And many of those people are black members of the NAACP.”
- from Wikipedia article on Ernestine Wade