• Weekly Internet webzine that publishes anti-white, leftist commentary and analysis
• Condemns white and black conservatives alike
• Promotes racial preference programs
• Supports slavery reparations for contemporary black Americans 

Founded by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble in 2002, The Black Commentator (BC) is a weekly Internet webzine that publishes articles and information on issues it deems pertinent to the black community. Describing its target audience as "African Americans and their allies in the struggle for social and economic justice," BC's stated objective is to provide "commentary, analysis and investigation -- elements of political dialogue that are absolutely essential to the creation of movements for social change."

BC regards every aspect of American society as to some degree, "racist," and believes that the nation as a whole has done virtually nothing to atone for its past transgressions and injustices. Regarding the criminal-justice system, for example, BC states, "[T]he most striking aspect of America's prison and broader criminal supervision boom is its heavily racialized nature. … One group is most especially targeted: Blacks are 12.3 percent of U.S. population, but they comprise roughly half of the roughly 2 million Americans currently behind bars." 

BC depicts Republicans and white conservatives as racists and bigots; black conservatives such as Clarence Thomas are characterized as "house Negroes" and "lawn jockeys."  "Clarence Thomas is number one -- the most backward, reactionary, bloodthirsty, Black people hater on the U.S. Supreme Court," reads one BC article. In a cartoon denigrating the Supreme Court Justice, Thomas is depicted as a Klansman whose face is hidden under a white hood. In a 2003 article on Condoleezza Rice, BC calls her "the Devil's handmaiden" and "the purest expression of the race traitor."  In a 2004 article titled "Godfather Colin Powell," BC denounces both Powell and Rice: "Are these two conspirators fit to speak at any Black gathering, ever again in life? Who in the Black community will debase their organizations with the presence of such 'role models'?" 

A prime target of BC wrath is President George W. Bush, who is characterized by BC guest commentator John Stanton as the "King of Pain." Writes Stanton: "If ever there was a practitioner for ruthlessness, it's Bush and crew. Ruining people's lives seems to be something in which this regime prides itself. . … [Bush] has led the way in tearing the fabric of America apart. … He has mindlessly opened the doors to racism and greed while at the same time he has closed and locked the doors of accountability, openness and peace." During the weeks preceding the 2004 presidential election, BC depicted Bush as an illegitimate Commander-in-Chief whose election four years earlier was "the Great Theft of 2000."

Also prior to the 2004 presidential election, BC co-founder Glen Ford wrote, "[A]lthough the Bush men's endless war strategy would rapidly sharpen the contradictions of this stage of Capitalism, the world might not live to see the ultimate unraveling. A Kerry victory might have the effect of giving Capitalism a breather. However, ... believing it selfish to allow my desire to actually witness the fall of Capitalism to influence my analysis, I want this rabid regime, gone." In a co-written BC article, Glenn Ford and Peter Gamble stated, "The people in charge of Bush are different from their class predecessors, a relatively recent mutation spawned by hyperactive capital, massive corporate corruption, and the maddening allure of global plunder. They are pirates. … Only mass mobilization can dislodge the pirates from power."

According to The Black Commentator, blacks ought not to assimilate into a nation that was, in BC's view, stolen from its rightful owners. Says one BC article, "[T]hose among us who harbor bourgeois dreams of integrating ourselves into the American institutions and structures that maintain dominance of stolen territory for the descendants of European invaders must come to understand that we are instead morally obligated to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who are indigenous to the Western hemisphere, and to do everything in our power to help them reclaim their land from the U.S. empire."

BC endorses monetary reparations for black Americans as a means of compensating them for the allegedly enduring, negative effects of slavery. Along these lines, BC says:  "Reparations is an affirmation of human worth and dignity, a super-weapon in any contest of moral authority. It identifies slavery as an American Original Sin … The magnificent promise of Reparations lies in the scope of the mission, which requires nothing less than turning this racist society upside down and shaking out the enabling mechanisms of White Privilege while, in the process, producing tangible material and political [power] results for the largest possible proportion of the Black population."

In an April 3, 2003 article, BC asserts: "A kind of international redlining will increasingly make itself felt, but not seen … [in] an America-phobic planet in which the U.S. has earned an invisible but powerfully consequential non-favored nation status. Having invented the concept of globalism, the United States will be consigned to pariah status -- and shrink, until it learns to live by human norms and scales."