Unfortunately the author oversimplified their argument. There could be a case for the “black tax” as a form of reparations, but never even discusses the long history of the government thwarting any gains black people attempted over the years. Such a shame.
The author's argument doesn't say anything about (or anything about anything like) 'the "black tax" as a form of reparations'. The "black tax" of the title isn't a literal tax, but the extra costs the author finds associated with being poor and having friends and family who are also poor: it's difficult for them to support you if you need to raise money, and if you get money you need to use some of it to support them.
That’s what makes me disappointed. “The Case for Reparations” from Ta-Nehisi Coates digs into this and how American government has been active in keeping that a multigenerational issue in black communities in particular.
I tend to think that "this person wrote an article but it was about what they wanted to talk about, not what I wanted them to talk about after seeing the title" isn't a strong criticism.
The things you want them to talk about are perfectly reasonable things to talk about, but they don't have much to do with the article and I don't see how their absence means that "the author oversimplified their argument". What argument do you think the author is making that would have been made better by talking about reparations, or a "black tax" in the sense (completely unrelated to that of the title) of tax imposed to finance reparations, or systemic racism on the part of the US government?
I think the article is trying to do two things. One of them -- sharing some aspects of the author's experience as a black entrepreneur that many readers will likely have no inkling of -- doesn't involve any argument at all. The other is objecting to criticisms of the idea of a "wealth tax", on the basis that lots of people are already facing a "tax" that will likely stop them becoming wealthy, and it doesn't stop them working hard. The things you want the article to mention wouldn't have had any relevance to either of those.