Lot of folks now are thinking that maybe the police should stop killing so many black people, but they're just dirty commies who think black people should exist. It takes a special out-of-the-box-thinking psychopath to go all topsy-turvy on Black Lives Matter: Maj. Travis Yates, with the Tulsa Police Department, believes we're not coming anywhere close to our quota of dead black people.

During a discussion with talk radio host Pat Campbell, Yates complained about all the annoying evidence showing -- in layman's terms -- that cops put a hurting on our asses.

You get this meme of, 'Blacks are shot two times, two and a half times more,' and everybody just goes, 'Oh, yeah.'

Memes are very persuasive. I especially like the one where Marilyn Monroe says, “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius." She never actually said this, but memes are notoriously unreliable. However, statistics about police violence aren't memes. They are a troubling fact of black lives. According to studies, unarmed black men are three and a half times more likely to be shot than unarmed white men. Yates doesn't dispute the fact, though. He just has a racist explanation for it.

They're not making sense here. You have to come into contact with law enforcement for that to occur.

If a certain group is committing more crimes, more violent crimes, and law enforcement's having to come into more contact with them, that number is going to be higher. Who in the world in their right mind would think that our shootings should be right along the U.S. Census lines? That's insanity.

The black pathology argument is inherently racist, and it ignores the problem: Black people are dying. Also, like so many cops, Yates has already tried and convicted the black people the police encounter. We (should) have due process in this country, so law enforcement doesn't come in contact with "criminals" until they've been charged and had an actual trial. Too many black people are dying before that even happens.