English: During this year, we've had two motions to the council, and both of them relate to the BAME community, and have been a response to the tragic death of George Floyd in America, and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter campaign. What those two motions led to was the establishment of a cross-party task and finish group, to look at how we deal with the BAME community in Carmarthenshire, and how we raise awareness of racism, discrimination and prejudice within our community. Of course, during the period following that second motion in July, there were many campaigns on a global level on Black Lives Matter, and there was a great deal of attention in Carmarthenshire particularly focused on the Sir Thomas Picton memorial in the middle of Carmarthen town. The remit of the task and finish group is very broad. It deals with how we introduce awareness of racism within the school curriculum, how we recruit to the county council more people from the BAME community, how the police recruit, and how they deal with the BAME community. So, the remit was very broad indeed, but one of the tasks that we had was to consult on the Sir Thomas Picton memorial. So, the work commenced on 2 August, and within a fortnight we'd drawn up a questionnaire to send out to people in Carmarthenshire, asking the simple question of what they wanted to see done with this memorial. There were all sorts of options in the questionnaire in terms of how they could respond to this, but essentially we wanted to know whether they wanted to keep the memorial, to see it removed, or to do something different with the memorial.
Welsh: Yn ystod y flwyddyn yma, mae dau rhybudd o gynnig wedi cael eu cyflwyno gerbon y cyngor sir, ac mae'r ddau ohonyn nhw yn ymwneud â'r gymuned BAME, a hefyd fel ymateb i farwolaeth drasig George Floyd yn America, a dechrau'r ymgyrch o gwmpas Black Lives Matter. Beth wnaeth y ddau rhybudd o gynnig hynny oedd sefydlu grŵp tasg a gorffen trawsbleidiol i edrych ar sut rŷn ni'n ymdrin â'r gymuned BAME yn sir Gaerfyrddin, a sut rŷn ni'n codi ymwybyddiaeth o hiliaeth a gwahaniaethu a rhagfarn o fewn ein cymuned. Wrth gwrs, yn ystod cyfnod yr ail rybudd o gynnig ym mis Gorffennaf, roedd yna lawer iawn o ymgyrchoedd dros y byd i gyd ynglŷn â Black Lives Matter, ac roedd yna sylw mawr yn sir Gaerfyrddin yn arbennig i gofeb Syr Thomas Picton, sydd yng nghanol tref Caerfyrddin. Mae cylch gorchwyl y grŵp tasg a gorffen yn eang iawn, iawn. Mae'n ymwneud â sut rŷn ni'n cyflwyno ymwybyddiaeth o hiliaeth ac ati o fewn cwricwlwm yr ysgol, sut rŷn ni'n mynd ati i recriwtio i'r cyngor sir mwy o bobl o'r gymuned BAME, sut mae'r heddlu yn mynd ati i recriwtio hefyd, a sut maen nhw'n delio â'r gymuned BAME. Felly, mae'r cylch gorchwyl yn eang, ond un o'r tasgau oedd gyda ni oedd ymgynghori ynglŷn â chofeb Syr Thomas Picton. Felly, dechreuodd y gwaith ar 2 Awst ac, o fewn pythefnos, roeddem ni wedi llunio holiadur i'w anfon mas i bobl yn sir Gaerfyrddin, yn gofyn y cwestiwn syml: beth oedden nhw eisiau gwneud gyda'r gofeb? Roedd yna bob math o opsiynau yn yr holiadur ynglŷn â sut roedden nhw'n mynd i ymateb i hyn, ond yn y bôn, roeddem ni eisiau gwybod a oedden nhw eisiau cadw'r gofeb, tynnu'r gofeb lawr neu wneud rhywbeth gwahanol gyda'r gofeb.