Despite whites holding social power, Dr. Bledsoe still has full control over the destiny and life of the narrator -- even more so than Mr. Norton does. Despite Mr. Norton's ability to convince Dr. Bledsoe to not punish the narrator, Dr. Bledsoe does so anyway because he doesn't care for the narrator's actions which led to this predicament in the first place. Thus, the narrator is kicked out.
I see Bledsoe as representing a sense of duplicity or "double-sidedness". On one hand he sucks up to the white man, but on the other he purposefully kisses their feet in a sort of "reverse dominance".
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