This is about as creative as simply stating "I'm a disco ball", although the symbolism is there, it seems cliche to me. Grammatically, a lot of the sentences are choppy and quick, so there isn't too much to annotate in that aspect.

There is a lot of repetition throughout this piece, and it also seems like this entire piece is composed of smaller old familiar pieces (prayer, hush little baby, etc). A lot of the phrases are all ones I've heard before, but each in their own previous story. Combining older phrases together gives them new meaning and I like that. I highlighted "We're off to never-never land" because it reminds me of Peter Pan, and I think that flying away to Neverland is the best way to describe what it's like to have a dream. Something comes in the night and takes you away from reality, to a place where anything can happen, good or bad. You fly away in the night to a new world and you can leave the old world behind. That is exactly what a dream is like in my opinion. Peter Pan definitely makes a perfect Sandman. I really do appreciate the symbolism throughout this piece.

I do agree that capitalizing a letter does draw more attention to the meaning of the word and the meaning behind its capitalization purpose. I'm also glad that in all this debate, there is still the basic understanding that it is a proper noun.

This is ridiculous. Of course the NEWS organizations would be the ones to do this, I'm honestly not surprised. White people may not share the same experiences as Black people, however in grammar there has to be order and equality with how we treat words. If the B in Black is going to be capitalized, the W in White should also be. They describe the same thing in this given context: Race. As stated in my earlier annotation, words that fall into the same category should follow the same grammatical rules. If the grammar world wants to remove the terms "black" and "white" from being a word to describe race, that is another story. For now, Black and White are proper nouns in that they describe Race.

Yes, black is a color, but it is also a word used to describe race. I believe that if we capitalize the word "Black" for using it to describe race, then that would mean we see race and ethnicity as a proper noun, as we should. In grammar however, words that fall into the same category should follow the same grammatical rules. All proper nouns get capitalized, not just ones we feel should be capitalized when we write.

I feel like every word at first would look strange on a page. I think in writing it is good to try new things and branch out, and trying new pronouns may appeal to the more modern audience. Staying conventional in writing can be dangerous in todays society because the audience today is so diverse that one way of writing will not fulfill the majority's needs.

At first, reading the sample sentence, using a plural pronoun did sound off in my head. After reading it over a couple more times, I did get used to it. And then it made me think of times I have used a "plural" pronoun to identify a "singular" subject. I'm pretty sure I have when ordering for someone at a restaurant, saying something like "They'll have water to drink" even though I'm only talking about a single person (whether it is a "he" or "she"). I really think this gender-neutral pronoun idea is a more common concept than most of us think, it just seems like a new concept when looked at this closely.