"Afristocracy" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1994 March 27, Richard Ellis, “Afristocracy”, in The Sunday Times Magazine, page 29:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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