Masaru

Human, USA Swimming ASCA level 5;2. Looking abroad to coach one day, USN veteran. Educated not proud American

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

@bluhue123 To many Democrats that vote are divided. Republicans are united in their hate for everyone of us.

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

@gregzilla901 @Strandjunker Racism is only acceptable when Republicans do it. Oh and being a felon, rape, child trafficking, drugs, Christian fascism, insurrection… Shut up & sit down.

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

@StephenKing Happy bday sir! Been a fan since Salems Lot & Christine. May you be blessed with many more! 🎂

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

https://t.co/rm6JYNU6cy

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

When someone says swimming isn’t athletic or hard to do. #Swimming #sports

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

Let’s go!!! 🏊🏾‍♂️💨🐊

[Gators Swimming & Diving @GatorsSwimDv]

Strong start for Josh 🔥🐊

Josh Liendo 🇨🇦 clocks a 48.34 in his morning heat and advances to the men's 100m free semifinal at 2:30 PM!

#GoGators x #OlympiansMadeHere

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

23rd out of 39th, 5 swimmers, 25 state cuts, 7 podiums, 1 state champion. #Swimming #coach

🥹🫶🏿🐻🏊🏾‍♂️💨🧜🏿‍♂️

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

Do no harm, if you hate the sport or have no passion of the sport, do not teach, instruct the sport. Misinformation is not needed, especially when knowledge is all around. Do it right or do not do it at all. #swimming #seasonplanning

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

When it comes to swimming, I love fast swimmers. I love dedicated, smart/hard working swimmers.

But, more importantly I love swimmers who have respect for everybody, love the sport and are willing to do everything positive to promote the sport.
#swimcoach

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

With ice cream… 😂 #cookiemonster

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Why isn’t anyone talking about project 2025 anymore? C'mon

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

Rest in peace momma. You stood in the gap for me. Prayed for me, supported me when I fell & celebrated when I succeed in life. Came to watch me coach. Make sure your elderly love ones are doing regular medical checkups. Life is shorter than you know. #RIP

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Good question…..

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

@chiitan7407 Noooooooo 🤦🏾‍♂️😂😂😂

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

Hooya!!! #USNavy

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1942, US Navy Messman Charles Jackson French successfully swam through the night for 6-8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded soldiers w a rope round his waist in shark infested waters. He was the first black swimmer to receive the Navy medal of heroism in 1943. #Veterans Day2023

—On September 5, 1942, United States Navy Messman Charles Jackson French swam through the night for 6 - 8 hours pulling a raft of 15 wounded sailors with a rope around his stomach through shark infested waters. The U.S. Navy Ship the U.S.S. Gregory was hit by Japanese naval fire in the South Pacific. Many were wounded and killed. French successfully brought these men to safety on the shores of The Solomon Islands. French was the first black swimmer to earn the Navy Medal for his heroism in 1943. We remember Charles Jackson French and commemorate his heroism and incredible swimming. Thank you for your service and your valor, Mr. French.

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[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

Salute 😢

[The Black Wall Street Times @TheBWSTimes]

The Black Firefighters of 9/11, Our Forgotten Heroes
The stories and faces of those Black firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice have been conspicuously absent from the photo exhibits and memorial projects dedicated to the fallen firefighters.
https://t.co/88FeH25r8u

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[The Black Wall Street Times @TheBWSTimes]

800 Descendants of enslaved Africans to Receive $50,000
The application for the Open Road Fund opened on June 19 (Juneteenth) and will close on July 28.
https://t.co/7apXX76GAM

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Fascism is as fascism does. https://t.co/Ls5PkCLKXS

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1970, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at 27 years old.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix ,was a musician, singer, and songwriter. Despite a relatively brief mainstream career spanning four years, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, eventually earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later finding work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid-1965. He then joined Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after having been discovered by bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals.

Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 as the world's highest-paid performer before dying from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored over driven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously.

In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Rolling Stone ranked their three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

[Masaru @ZiggyCoach]

Never again, never forget. ✊🏿

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.