“You are not going to continue to threaten the Black Race, Grandmaster Jay says. Do you want to join our private family of first responders and supporters? STONE MOUNTAIN, GA – On Saturday, July 4, a group of “100% black” people named the “Not Fucking Around Coalition” (NFAC) marched through Stone Mountain Park armed and escorted by police.. The most well-known was the Black Panther Party established in 1966 after the shooting of Matthew Johnson, a Black teenager killed by police. A BLACK MAN using the 2nd Amendment gives you nightmares.”, “Dear EVERY SINGLE DUMBASS calling #NFAC the “Black Panthers” or anything that is a misrepresentation of peace and protection for the Black community. Earlier in the day, the NFAC were seen alongside demonstrators who were headed to a rally for Rayshard Brooks, who was killed by police at a Wendy’s. That’s not what we do,” says Grandmaster Jay. What is NFAC? We respect people’s First Amendment right. Home › Forums › Decaffeinated Coffee › Black Militia of the NFAC This topic has 13 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago by Amil Zola. Along with an upward of 1,000 troops, Grandmaster Jay marched in sync through the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, Stone Mountain, Georgia. The organization is young, but has already had a few run-ins that call its motives into question. The first public appearance of the NFAC was at a KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio, in 2019. The fear of a BLACK MAN keeps you up at night. More recently, Johnson unsuccessfully campaigned for the 2016 presidential election as an Independent, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Of course racist on Twitter have a problem with it. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the park had been closed, but it reopened for the 4th of July holiday weekend. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. Started in 2017, the group has marched in Stone Mountain, Georgia, calling for the removal of the nation's largest confederate monument; Brunswick, Georgia, for. We here, where fuck you at? It recreated itself. Then the FBI found a gun 'factory' in his home", "At the Southern Border, a Do-It-Yourself Tack on Security", "Desert Hawks: Paramilitary veterans group stakes out US-Mexico borderlands", "Active Antigovernment Groups in the United States (2018)", "Armed citizens patrol the Arizona-Mexico border", "Guns, rights and the Missouri Citizen Militia", "Missing Fulton man triggers search party", "In-fighting and threats splinter pro-Trump groups", "NY Militia Gives Inside Look at its Operation", "Abbott's campaign stop in McAllen brings protests over SB 4", "Right-Wing Militias Are Now Actively Supporting Some State and Local Pro-Trump Politicians", "Meet your local anti-government extremist groups", "Armed white men patrolling Kenosha protests organized on Facebook", "Three to join Great Valley Wall of Fame", "Texas Town Has Citizen Militia Standing Guard at Recruiters Office", "7 in Paramilitary Group Arrested in West Virginia", "Men detonated explosive, used encrypted messages in Whitmer kidnap plot, feds say", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_militia_organizations_in_the_United_States&oldid=986564801, Paramilitary organizations based in the United States, Right-wing militia organizations in the United States, Lists of military units and formations of the United States, Lists of organizations based in the United States, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2017, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Ohio Valley Minutemen Citizen's Volunteer Militia, This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 17:13. Large Black armed-groups aren't something often seen in the US. eventAction: 'click_adunit' The NFAC has also distanced itself from the peaceful Black Lives Matter protests, stating that they believe in an "eye for an eye" approach. A self-described militia composed exclusively of Black members, the NFAC has appeared at the protests for Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
No relation.”, “You pieces of sh** keep calling any armed gathering of BLACK MEN Black Panthers knowing that’s not what they are. No. pic.twitter.com/2yLZzIaLUp, — ★ AmericanVeteran ★ (@MericaVeteran) July 5, 2020, “The Black Panthers haven’t existed since the 80s, and White people who label every militant Black man as a Black panther are being racist as hell.
Authorities in Louisville and Lafayette told CNN no major incidents were reported during NFAC's events in their cities. Grandmaster Jay hosts a series of IG Live talks with titles such as “Facts Over Feelings,” in which he expounds on topics ranging from personal development to new developments involving the organization. Jay mentioned that the NFAC is not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter. The group has since mostly disappeared. hitType: 'event', “We live in a world where racism is appearing to rear its ugly head again the way it did back in the Jim Crow days,” he tells Complex via Zoom. Proceeds get reinvested into having active, retired and wounded officers, their families and supporters tell more of these stories. Instead, they kneeled on the ground amid the confusion, and then walked away after their leader shouted, "fall back! Self-financed and focused, the NFAC, Grandmaster Jay says, is neither protesters nor demonstrators, explaining to Roland Martin in a July interview, “We are a Black militia. "She knew those guns were there to protect her not to hurt her," Colemon said. The 31-year-old and her daughter went to NFAC's October 3 rally in Lafayette. "We're not 'effing' around anymore with the continued abuses within our community and the lack of respect for our men, women and children," Johnson told CNN. While the inner workings of the militia are only known to its leadership and key members, the total number of active participants in the organization is unknown, as well as where they are headquartered, or how they fund themselves. The NFAC then runs a background check on the potential member. NFAC members kneel in the street during a September march in Louisville, Kentucky. For Judson L. Jeffries, a professor of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University, the NFAC's priority so far has been stopping police brutality and it would be interesting to see how the group's behavior and ideology evolves going forward. We don’t come to sing, we don’t come to chant. Jay commended the police for showing support to the all-black militia in exercising their Constitutional rights on July 4th. The founder of the group, who calls himself Grand Master Jay, spoke with Newsweek over the phone Sunday. Just because you love your people doesn’t mean you hate everybody else.”. “Black Lives Matter was the forefront of the pro-Black movement until it was hijacked by other entities, so it does not represent the will or the sentiment of the Black nation. Amid explosive racial tensions, the vast majority of the NFAC’s visibility is a product of social media—particularly Instagram. eventAction: 'load' The NFAC is a focused, self-finance armed militia of trained Black military veterans, and according to the Grandmaster Jay, the NFAC is neither protestors nor demonstrators. The Stone Mountain Park main thoroughfare is Robert E. Lee Boulevard. "I hope we don't get to the point where we witness shootout, open warfare between police departments and these (armed) groups," Jeffries said. Appearing on Roland Martin’s “Unfiltered Daily Digital Show,” Grandmaster Jay tells Martin that the Stone Mountain formation took place for two reasons: One, to exercise their constitutional rights to bear arms and to assemble peacefully. NFAC was previously seen during a George Floyd protest in Minneapolis where they were reportedly protecting Black-owned businesses amid the unrest in May. eventAction: 'view' } We’re in your house.”. Armed Black militia group NFAC marches at KKK stronghold Stone Mountain, supporters say they're 'in tears' The group, known as Not F**king Around Coalition (NFAC), demanding the removal of carvings of Confederate figures on the side of the mountain, where KKK was reborn in 1915 eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(),
I am not fucking around.”. ga('ads.send', { The first public sighting of the NFAC took place on May 12, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia, as a direct response to the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger murder by two white males in February. ", When the NFAC marched in Louisville, they were met by an armed, largely White extremist group called the. The Confederate monument is a sculpture of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Southern generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. With so much “stuff” happening in the world on social media, it’s easy for things to get lost. The Official Members Only Portal For The N.F.A.C.