This is not thinly veiled racism. What the author was ineloquently trying to point out is simple. African American's have been screwed by the system and so they

This is not thinly veiled racism. What the author was ineloquently trying to point out is simple. African American's have been screwed by the system and so they have been taught not only distrust the system, but also to resent authority. Furthermore, these communities are now self-seggragating. Where at one time there was a vision/dream/fantasy that African Americans and Whites were converging toward the same destinations. We would all end up in suburbs, or brownstones, ala the Cosby's. At some point African Americans, with encouragement through identity politics, perhaps rightly who am I to say, shifted toward wanting their own identity. Now when you are raised to resent authority, and to live in your own subculture, you are cutting yourself off from the available avenues for success. Chances are many of your bosses will be white, many of your teachers and professors will be white. If you are taught to resent and discount them, you are at an immediate disadvantage. You have to listen to your boss, or at least give them a fair shot to make a living and advance. When you start your job as an adversary you cannot get power through the avenues readily available in broader society. This is the author's point. Without the shared "bourgeois" values, as she calls it, makes succeeding very hard. I will also note that there may be other ways to solve this problem aside from sharing those values.