Alceste, I didn't miss it. I'm just aware that regardless of race a firm may purport to think something is wonderful until, in the real world, it interferes with someone's ability to work untold hours without letting the pastime interfere. Not a race thing. Just a Bay Street thing. 

The author herself seems to identify with liking Nina Simone as being unique to Her and People Like Her. I'm confused why a NYC singer is uniquely relatable to a Canadian with Caribbean heritage unless she is making the point that all blacks are alike which strikes me as facile.