Page 18 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – Friday, July 19, 2019 OBITUARIES Stefana C. Raneri • Burials • Cremations • Pre-Arrangements • Serving the Greater Boston and North Shore regions for over 250 years! It is our purpose to give thoughtful service, and if in so doing, we have helped to lighten your burden, our goal has been accomplished. 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The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, and ity. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 08/08/2019. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to BETSY ROSS | FROM PAGE 10 thing, even if it costs you everything.” Back then, the quarterback was a plausible symbol of conscientious dissent, a hero speaking truth to the powerful NFL. But the spokesman’s role is different this time. Rather than positively expressing what he believes, he’s effectively dictating what Nike – and anyone downstream from their influence – must not express. He’s gone from dissident martyr to censoring cleric, an inconsistency that makes for a culture war loss. Likening Kaepernick to a puritanical religious authority is no stretch. The Washington Post covered the flag’s potential racism as a prospective “contamination.” Rightly suggesting that people of good will should not readily surrender symbols to racists, Alyssa Rosenberg discussed the flag’s possible racist associations in terms of taint, poison, and desecration. This matches how social and legal theorists think about racism. Even if Kaepernick and Nike’s executives are sincere, they are operating within a group morality that, like all others, casts judgments, pronounces taboos, and declares what’s sacred and what’s profane. To be moral in this sense is to police a moral community according to the judgment of its authorities, which leaves those who don’t accept its judgments feeling coerced or excluded. It’s a discomfiting tension for progressives to live with, given that these are the evils they like to tilt against. Just because a corporadays after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. if the above-named person WITNESS, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court. Date: July 12, 2019 TARA E. DeCRISTOFARO REGISTER OF PROBATE July 19, 2019 tion’s fan base, its peers, and even presidential candidates eat up and defend its branding doesn’t make it moral. At best, this is only winning the approval of one’s own tribe. Because corporate brands build loyalty through individuals’ voluntary acts of association, their authority is parochial at best. There’s nothing wrong with collecting together a band of people who “believe in something.” But if Senator Ben Sasse is right, what we think of as tribes are often anti-tribes. The danger is that believing in something slips into being against something and being against some others closely identified with that thing. There’s a second way Nike’s shoe cancellation contradicts its branding: it didn’t “cost everything.” Rather, the company gained billions of dollars in market value by its iconoclasm. According to The Journal, company founder Phil Knight told a business school audience earlier this year, “It doesn’t matter how many people hate your brand as long as enough people love it.” He may as well have endorsed profit at any cost, frayed national political climate be damned. This devil-may-care attitude seems out of step with the corporate social responsibility ethos that progressives embrace. That imperative has firms look beyond maximizing shareholder value to the interests of stakeholders like factory workers and the environment. If ecosystems and socioeconomic groups matter, then why not the nation’s civic climate? It destabilizes society when cultural titans needlessly alienate a large swath of fellow citizens. Nike’s branding has got it backwards. It’s cheap to fire up one’s tribal base by being against something. The true moral leadership that our deeply divided society needs risks disappointing that base for the sake of the common good. It’s past time that America’s commentators, celebrities, and corporate leaders take that risk. It won’t cost everything. —Lewis Waha holds an M.A. in Christian Apologetics from Biola University and is a freelance writer focusing on faith in the public square. For Advertising with Results, call The Advocate Newspapers at 617-387-2200 or Info@advocatenews.net Of Everett on July 10. Daughter of the late Stefano and Pietrina (Forti) Raneri. Loving sister of Joseph Raneri and his wife, Minerva, Frank Raneri and his wife, Josephine and the late Paul Raneri and his surviving wife, Maria. Also survived by her loving nephews and niece: Peter Raneri, Steven Raneri, Biagio Raneri, Jennifer Lombard and Timothy Lombard. She will be missed by her cousin, Johnny Bottari and dear friends, Carmella Germanetto, Lidia Consalves and Rochina. A funeral was held from the Salvatore Rocco & Sons Funeral Home, 331 Main Street, Everett on Tuesday, July 16, 9:30 am. Funeral Service will commence in the funeral home at 10:00 am. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Visiting hours were on July 15. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. For more information: 1-877-71-ROCCO or roccofuneralhomes.com Phyllis L. (Gill) Tricco Of Everett, formerly of Chelsea, July 13, 2019 at the age of 90. Wife of the late Charles L. Tricco. Beloved mother of David C. Tricco and his wife Mary of West Roxbury, Steven P. Tricco of Braintree. Dear sister of Jean Thompson of Revere and the late Alfred Gill and Doris Penney. Sister-in-law of Rose Ann Gill of Everett and the late William Thompson and John C. Penney. Phyllis is also lovingly survived by 6 grandchildren, Andrew, Edward, Jacquelyn Tricco, Elizabeth Schwarz and her husband D.J., Emily Leach and her husband Owen, Dana Tricco. Her Funeral Services were conducted at the First Congregational Church, 26 County Rd., Chelsea, on Wednesday. Funeral Services will conclude with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett. Retired sales auditor for the former Jordan Marsh Company. Late member of the First Congregational Church in Chelsea. Carafa Family Funeral Home, Chelsea
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