Since online information is a thing they cannot really control, at the very least their children are going to be mad as hell that their parents and other adults lied to them about what their ancestors had done. Black people actually teach our kids about history, and sooner or later they're going to interact with someone of another race who knows the truth ,and this is going to produce certain reactions.
All the lying does is perpetuate the defensive and ignorant attitudes so prevalent among too many white adults today, who do so because their own feelings take precedence over the truth.