The Khajit race (basically cat-people) in the Elder Scrolls series usually have dreadlocks as a hairstyle choice in-game, so it could be related to that.
In a certain (and I don't personally agree with it) light, that's still a "racism against black people" thing. as the khajiit are black coded in some really unflattering ways in a few places in the eyes of some.
The Khajiit home province is notable for being a mix of jungle and desert to the south, they have a weird devolved way of speech which is understandable as the dominant language, but is just off enough that it creates its own dialect (often equated to ebonics), they at least used to (ESO did some wonky lore stuff) have a culture that was heavily inspired by African tribes, are notoriously poor, are frequently criminals, have a major issue with abusing a cocaine analog, oh and they are frequently enslaved by different elven factions, with the most notable being dark elves but the aldari dominion is also implied to do so in a few books in Skyrim.
It's a pretty well known thing in the TES fandom there's some unfortunate black stereotype coding going on there with them. I personally don't think it's all intended, but it's been noted a few times over the years.
Them and argonians both have incredibly primative appearing societies, and occasionally you can see signs of "insert African/Native American culture to fill this tiny gap here" in their lore. So there's some eyebrow raising with them, especially as they are shown as slaves in Morrowind a lot. Note that per the lore, Dark Elves don't enslave beast races anymore than any other race, including themselves, it's just that game tried to make a very understated and mostly ignorable point about racism and slavery is bad and used it as an analog for the slavery of black people in American history, giving us a bias to view khajiit and Argonians as black analogs.
Though despite trying to make the furries look uncivilized, at least they aren't cannibalistic shits like the wood elves so it's not just the black analogs getting shit on.
