Is it legitimate to make the black experience the fundamental criterion for interpreting Scripture? The problem is imposing the black experience or any other experience including feminist, gay, anti-supernaturalist, New Age, mystic, onto Scripture robs Scripture of its intrinsic authority and distorts its intended meaning. This is what Black preachers like Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson all have done. For blacks to use such an experience-oriented methodology is to condone the very kind of method used by those who enslaved them. This is self-defeating at best.