not surprising

From Chancellor Herman's recent email about the vandalizing of an anti-racist art display in front of the cultural houses on Nevada:

We need to begin thinking of these crimes differently. First, let us not view this as happening to someone else. What threatens one member of our community threatens all of us. We are all diminished in the wake of such an act. Indeed, Illinois is diminished and that should concern our
community.

Who's we? By we-ing in a way that excludes us from the targeted "group," even, ironically, as he asks us not to do so, Herman assumes Whiteness, or at least not-American Indian-ness, of his readers. Which I guess is fair assumption since someone once told me there are 12 American Indian students at U of I.