You Don't Care If It's Wrong Or If It's Right

Slate investigated, and sadly, it looks like the feel-good story of the summer, Roxanne Shante's supposed victory over her label that led to her education and foundation of an innovative therapy practice, is fiction. I never understand lies like this, that are built on flimsy foundations and to no apparent purpose. Did Shante think she wouldn't get discovered? What kind of pleasure did she derive from deceiving people, or from being treated like a respected doctor that outweighs the fear and tension she must have felt about the possibility of being caught? Why not just get the degrees in the first place? At least in a case like this, it's hard to think she inflicted substantial harm on anyone except herself (unless, of course, she was practicing without a license). So much for Roxanne's Revenge.