“[The] association of wealth with whites and poverty with blacks is not accidental. It is the nature of the imperialist relationship that enriches the metropolis at the expense of the colony i.e. it makes the whites richer and the blacks poorer” from The Groundings with My Brothers
In this 1969 publication, Rodney predicts our times where inequality is invariably wielded into racism. Rodney tells us that this perpetuation is supposed to make the white establishment richer.