Racist Pencils

Okay, so today is Cool Hunting day, because they keep posting stuff over there that inspires me. Their most recent post, about Smencils, scented pencils made from recycled newspaper and made to smell like bubble gum, cherry, chocolate milk, cinnamon, cookie dough, grape, hazelnut latte, orange, peppermint, or root beer, reminded me of the recent episode of Drawn Together where Foxxy Love is busted for not having a Mystery Solving License and convinces Ling Ling to take the racially biased standardized test for her so she can go back to college. The villian in the episode, the Board of Education (literally a board), is trying to prevent minorities (particularly African-Americans) from doing well on standardized tests by creating menthol-grape flavored pencils which would cause African-Americans to eat their pencils and therefore not be able to complete the tests. Did the writers of Drawn Together know about Smencils (available here for purchase), or is this just one of those coincidences that you hear about occasionally in the news? Personally, I think this is a conspiracy. But then again, I am paranoid.