Because freedom is RACIST!!!!/sarc
Oh yes! Did you know that one of the reason the colonists gave in the Declaration for breaking with Britian was that the King had "excited domestic insurrections" (slave revolts)? (And there were slaves in EVERY colony at that time)
During the war, Britian also offered freedom to all the slaves who sided with her against the colonists in an attempt at creating more domestic strife.
This means that those colonists were just evil racists fighting for slavery and liberty was just a code word for slavery! The British were the good guys cuz they wanted to free the slaves! ;-)
Oh, heck yes. Let’s rationalize. Southerns want freedom and states’ rights. So then take away the freedom of Africans, bring them to the South as slaves, then blame the Muslims and other Africans. Then, Southern freedom becomes racist.