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Lots of people who are atheistic and urban are just as sexist and racist. They just don't talk about it quite the same way.
I live in the northeast. Racism here isn't slurs or loud talking about how bad people are. Racism here is calling the cops because there is a single black guy minding his business smoking in the park and it makes you scared. It's passive aggressive bullshit.
I'd agree that racism and sexism are separate from religion and I didn't intend to suggest that religion is the source of racism or sexism. It runs much deeper than that with sexism and racism being expressed in different ways by both religious and non-religious alike. That said, where and when I grew up they were all intertwined with and reinforced by religion. So when I threw off the yoke of religion it was easier, for me at least, to recognize the many small and large injustices being committed by me those around me because that was our "culture".