Why do Blacks in the US talk differently than Whites ?

[pbrower2a]

According to Albion's Seed, planters typically broke down slaves and reshaped them in the image of English peasants who did not follow them to the New World. They 'gave' the slaves an over-simplified, near-pidgin English that could never encompass the 'lofty' ideas of their masters. (Just think of a theme of Orwell's 1984 -- that whoever controls the language controls human thoughts and actions as efficiently as a hangman).