Meaning of Afristocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

Wealthy and/or elite black people collectively.

informal

Examples

“The Afristocracy — the new Jews — are out in force at the Pyramid this evening. Directly across from Harrell's corner booth is a long table dominated by Wesley Snipes. He is surrounded by five beautiful women, and Jasmine Guy (A Different World) is whispering in his ear. Martin Lawrence has a table across the way, and Keenen Ivory Wayans, the creator of In Living Color, is tucked into another corner.”

“At 36 Luhabe epitomises the new Afristocracy. She grew up in one of the troubled townships to the east of the city at a time when white rule seemed destined to last for ever. The only way a girl like her might have come to live in an expensive white suburb would have been as a maid.”

“Michael Eric Dyson distinguishes two classes of Black Americans today: the Afristocracy versus the Ghettocracy. The Afristocracy is the “upper-middle class blacks and the black elite who rain down fire and brimstone upon poor blacks[…]”

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