I am writing in reference to the letter from Jack Jalbert (Oct. 22). To answer his question as to whether the story should be news or an editorial, I belief that it should be news. I also think he needs to open his eyes and think about what he wrote.

He claims that one of those accused and I were “friends of many years, so it saddens me to come to this.” First of all, he does not even know me. Second, the accused and I had not spoken to one another since around March. I stopped talking to him because of the racial things he said toward me on the school bus.

Jalbert claims that the incident was a joke. If that was a joke, why would I make a big deal out of it? I would not. Those kids chose me, out of about 50 other male cadets, being the only African-American.

I have to wonder why his parents took him out of school when many Auburn and Lewiston residents read about the incident. Are they trying to hide something?

I did not ask for that article to be on the front page. It just so happened that the Sun Journal editors thought it deserved to be on the front page.

Martin Houston, Auburn