The Screaming Hollow:
"How many died, how many lives, bodies have been forgotten to sands of time, the screams of the hollow still march with pride, not until the last veteran and the last victim has died, will the hollow will turn against the screaming tied, to remain quiet for all time."
-John Warren 2060
Screaming Hollow Part One: Groups: Section One: The NFAC
"There are still bodies being found in South almost ten years after the war, most of whom remain unnamed and unmarked. It is estimated that about 1 to 2 million died in the Screaming Hollow, and just like the unknown number of dead, the date of the start or even the reason why it started remains unknown. Racial base militia and paramilitaries in the pre-war post Millennium American south were always common.
However, those of color weren't as common as the white ones until the late 2010s. Groups such as the Huey P Newton Gun Club, Black Guns Matter, the many Black Panther Parties, and of course, the NFAC. The Not Fucking Around Coalition combined serval black self-defense militias, armed political parties, and gun clubs under one organization.
The paramilitary group would first make headlines on the 4th of July 2020 at Stone Mountain. Their leader, an ex-Mc by the name of Grandmaster Jay, stated that the group had received a tip that the klu Klux klan planned on shooting to kill black people at random around the area. At that time, the contingent at Stone Mountain numbered only around 1,500 armed demonstrators. The video of armed black-clad African Americans went semi-viral.
By the time of their second large-scale formation, as the group called it, in Louisville, Kentucky, in protest over a black woman being killed by the police in her own home, the militia would parade around 3,500 strong in that protest alone. Still, it was estimated that the number of members nationwide at the time was well over 10,000 and maybe up to 15 or 20 thousand.
The group would have several more formations ranging from a few hundred armed members to a few thousand. Their growth in the latter half of 2020 was steady but would explode in the early half of 2021 after an attempted mass shooting at Lenox mall in Atlanta would be stopped by one of the group's members, giving the group mainstream fame among black gun owners. By the time of the 2021 summer riot and the battle of zone 6, the group would number well over 60 to a hundred thousand. After the battle of zone 6, where a group of NFAC snipers managed to beat back an armed white mob stopping them from entering the community, they would grow so rapidly to the point that by august of that year, there was a waiting list and over 120,000 members in December that number would double again after the mass shooting at a historically black church.
The group would see a steady growth rate with occasional jumps until the start of the Hollow. They would total in number, not counting foreign chapters but including allied US groups over 750,000 to 800,000 members most concentrated around the black belt. However, they did have presents In every major city with a significant population. However, there would be competing with other groups in the north of the United States like the John Brown Gun Club and the Socialist Rifle Association.
Outside of their trademark uniforms, there was another thing that set them apart from most other militias. That being how well organized and well funded, in some instances, they not only outnumbered and organized just Neo confederate but the national guard and even the federal army. This has to do with the pre-war group earnings and organizations. Like most of the ANA and rebel militias, the NFAC were organized into chapters.
What split them apart from groups like the John Brown Gun Club is that they were far more tied together and shared funds and training. In 2022 each member of the NFAC was asked to pay around 30 dollars a month for gear, training, land for courses, vehicles, uniforms, and other materials. This means by the start of the war in 2028, the group earned about 22.5-24 million dollars a month in just donations from within the group alone, not counting contributions from supporters from at home and abroad. The NFAC by 2028 was more similar to an American Hezbollah than a militia. They had drones, armored vehicles, training courses, barracks, heavy weapons, somewhat standardized uniforms (a great deal of customization was allowed), propaganda outlets such as radio, online tv shows, and has several popular black gun influencers among their rank, and food and health care programs.
This mass accumulation and organization didn't come on without its share of scandals; when news of the group getting training from active duty Rwandan special forces broke in 2025, it would prompt several laws against seeking or getting training from foreign agencies and troops. Still, even after 2025, training and organization would be stressed after serval cases of ND would cause the group to be mocked in 2021 and 2022 by other militia groups. Recruitment of active duty or retired military and the national guard was highly encouraged, and with the war in Venezuela going on, there was no shortage of them. These comparative edges over their enemies would prove useful in stopping the attempted genocide of the screaming Hollow."
-Moes Harbor "The Quiet War" 2067.
