I've written a simple issue tracker for my web app. I have some comments that I want to keep private (only a role of 'root' can see them). Is there a better way to write the following so I do not need the empty else section?

$role will be 'root' or some other values
$is_private will be true if the comment is private

<?php
// Don't show private comments to non-root users
if ($is_private && 'root' != $role):
    // NON Root cannot see private
else:
?>
<div class="comment <?= $is_private ? 'private' : '' ; ?>">
    <div class="comment-meta toolbar">
    <?= $is_private ? 'PRIVATE - ': ''; ?>
    <span class="datestamp"><?= $created_at; ?></span> - 
    <span class="fullname"><?= $fname . ' ' . $lname; ?></span></div>
    <p class="content"><?= nl2br($body); ?></p>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>