1970-Mestre Waldemar comenta desunión de capoeiristas

These days, Waldemar only plays berimbau, but don’t be fooled By Cristina Cardoso
Diário de Notícias, Salvador, 10 October 1970
Source: O Barracão do Mestre Waldemar by Frederico Abreu
Translation by Shayna McHugh

Disunity

“The great tragedy,” concludes mestre Waldemar, “is that Bahia is stuffed with capoeira mestres and no one understands each other any more. But the people are the eternal and infallible judges that will determine who are the true mestres, the keepers of the truth. But what’s worse is that each mestre speaks badly about the others; there is no unity, no one thinks that the group should be united. Look at the example of doctors: a patient is being treated, one doctor gives him medicine and the sick man ends up in the cemetery. Another doctor examines him, sees that the medicine caused the death, asks who treated the patient, but doesn’t ridicule his colleague. They’re a united group. But these capoeiristas just fight among themselves.

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