Deconstructing One's Identity

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

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