Deconstructing One's Identity

As a Black Xtian, though I grew up as a church kid: VBS, Sunday School, the whole nine yards, pur parents encouraged reading and learning outside the faith. 

The faith was to ground us and lean on, but, we were encouraged to think for ourselves, think critically, not take all of the Bible literally and which books were contextually to be taken symbolically. I quickly subscribed to the other young woman. And "thank you for being you"(Mr. Fred Rogers). 

I have been going through deconstruction myself and getting back to my Blackness and my Caribbean identity more and more as I've gotten older.