Christianity is the white man's religion. It came to us in chains, carried by the same people who held the whip, and a Black person who keeps it is still kneeling to the master's God. That is the claim as it is usually made, in barbershops, comment threads and college classrooms. It is not a fringe idea. It draws on things that really happened, and anyone who answers it by pretending otherwise has already lost the argument.
Jude 3 Project holds that the claim is historically inaccurate. Christians were worshiping Jesus in Egypt and Ethiopia long before most of Europe had a church. That fact does not erase the slave Bible, the auction block or the segregated pew. People who called on the name of Christ carried those out. The real task is learning to hold both histories at once. One is an ancient African faith received freely. The other is a modern faith that reached many Black people alongside colonialism and slavery. Once you see where the line between them actually runs, the wound stops counting as evidence against the faith. It becomes evidence about the people who betrayed it.
The analysis moves in four layers, each with its own practice. It starts with where the claim comes from, which means putting dates and texts on the harm. It then tests the African heritage as hard as the harm, including the parts of ancient church history that were not kind to Africans. Next it traces the theological distinction that enslaved Christians drew for themselves. Last, it asks what holding both histories does to identity. The witnesses are Vince Bantu, Charlie Dates, Jerome Gay, Eric Mason, Jackie Hill Perry, Sho Baraka and Adam Coleman. The aim throughout is to say exactly what the evidence supports, and nothing more.