Yesterday, 24 year old man in Cardiff died after being subject to a violent arrest. His name was Mohamud Mohammed Hassan.This thread is being written to compile everything that has been released over the past 24 hours in one place. This is Mohamud. #BlackLivesMatter [1]

The agency that's brought about commitments to radical reform has come from movements largely outside of Welsh Labour - only a handful noted in the piece

Wrote about the Labour-Plaid co-operation agreement, reading Welsh politics through an English lens, and the need for disciplined scepticism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 If there are grounds for cautious hope - they're first and foremost not in Welsh Labour

Please sign this petition calling for the release of bodycam+CCTV footage from Mohamud Mohammad Hassan’s arrest and time in police custody. It’s been nearly 1 year: Who contributed to the death of Hassan? If we don’t get them, they can get us all.

because uniformly all white leadership or nearly all white leadership, a failure to have elected a BAME person- that’s the antithesis to an independent wales. Our struggles must match our communities or they won’t be successful in our communities.

There’s nothing radical about ignoring yr siblings in solidarity while we experience an epidemic of the prison industrial complex, nothing radical about refusing to organize around borders when people r deported; nothing radical about a group of white people leading this campaign

But there have been campaigns on farms, on free school meals, and so on: maybe if anti racist struggle was a farm, we would have seen more interaction from Undod. Perhaps, more accurately, Undod is the white liberal campaign for independence: not the radical.

We changed our name from YesCymruPOC so people wouldn’t think the campaigns we did were reflective of YC. Undod and YC are 2 sides of the same coin where our campaigns are ignored+these institutions fail to launch anti racist campaigns of their own during an epidemic of racism

We as a collective of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people supported the launch campaigns relating to deaths in police custody and we had 0 correspondence or support from Undod while we worked 6 how amongst three people, excluding our caring commitments

A radical campaign for Indy cannot be 100% run by white people in excluding people of colour: this is what racism looks like in public but naturally, we will be told it’s conscious+ unconscious bias, that they didn’t mean this, what can they do 2 not self perpetuate their racism

We are not the organizers of this event. #JUSTICE4MOHAMUD DEMONSTRATION 📍CITY HALL LAWNS 🕛 NOON #CYFIAWNDERIMOHAMUD #NOJUSTICENOPEACE #WHY52OFFICERS

Does this break new ground on understandings of slavery in Wales? Who makes the money from the rose? Who gets the money from the rose? Why have those linked to the campaign made a number of false assertions about John’s life, like he was the first ethnic minority to speak Welsh?

he was kept as a slave: whether or not he was treated well doesn’t factor into it, and this is a trope about slavery and slave owners

@moi_chevalier Good point. Can you imagine: “look here Garett, I got this wonderful rose, named after our first black gardener. Was a slave you know, from the old Gold Coast.’ 🙄😑

@mxmovement And they’re gonna make a big profit from sales

@moi_chevalier They gave him a name after kidnapping him, and then name a rose after the name they gave him cos he was forced to be a gardener for his kidnappers. LOL. The wacky crazy world of colonialism. 💔

Britain’s “first black gardener”, kidnapped from west Africa and put on an estate in wales.

The Ystumllyn rose is a new example of breaking new ground in tokenizing our history for the white gaze while creating new narratives about colonialism and slavery in Wales that refuse to interrogate colonialism and slavery

@alanwilliamz @EmmaSandrey @DafyddTrystan @bethanjenkins @huw4ogmore Diversity is a form of dissection. Under the current guidelines, BAME people are diverse but the Senedd is in the heart of one of the please Black communities in Britain: yet no Black woman from Wales has been elected to the Senedd.