At What Price

Will we keep the secrets until we're dead passing on lies to the children of this land?
Educating them to speak like the newsman, sending them to charm school to learn to walk?

Skin pale enough to pass as white, eyes just as pale will we speak no truth to our children?
Who are we afraid of embarrassing? At what price do we keep these secrets?

Will we let the truth slip into the background to protect our precious images?
If the children look white, speak white they must really be white!

How can we say we love our children while passing on the lies?
Are we too frail of spirit to look at the truth?
At what price do we keep these secrets?