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81Ling-Ling, Foxxy: “Oh I can’t do this.” Ling-Ling: “You can do it Foxxy.”Foxxy: “Maybe you’re right Ling-Ling. Maybe I can do this. Hm let’s see I’ma get thirty eight miles, carry the two, take away the minus, add the semicolon, put that dot on the left side, ughh.” Ling-Ling: “The answer is D.”Foxxy: “Right D. I knew I could do it” (Drawn Together). This supports ClintBolick’s statement that black students don’t graduate from high schoolbecause it shows that Foxxy can’t even solve a simple math problem. Shehas to ask her Asian friend Ling-Ling for help.Next we need to solve the problem of inner-city black students notgraduating high school, by supplying them with a voucher system. ClintBolick says, “Children who most need the compensations of a qualityeducation are instead regulated to dysfunctional schools” (242). By doingthis we are showing that we still aren’t past the days of segregation. We putthese students in schools that fail them, which keep them from moving up insociety to live in wealthier communities. Similarly in Drawn Together theyuse two different hyperboles about this topic. One is from the Board ofEducation, “So you see why we can’t let blacks pass the SATs. No educatedperson would spend money on gold rims, purple leather seats and flip downLCD screens for $3,000 Geos” (Drawn Together). This example makes fun ofseveral different stereotypes of blacks mainly focusing on stupidity and whyblacks shouldn’t get into college. This overstates the stupidity as well as ourreason for not letting them move up in society. It makes you feel negative