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I'm curious what the point of using a word like anark*ta is? The interview subjects refer to ak*ta as a slur, which I understand there is some disagreement about. It is certainly a Yoruba word that africans use to describe black americans, so it is not a slur to be reclaimed from an oppressor trying to degrade black people; but there are also opinions among some students of the language that it is not a slur and it is also not a word for non-yoruba people to use or "reclaim" (as it was never theirs). Does all this suggest that there's even vast portions of the black populace that should not be saying this word, or are these themselves minority takes?

The meaning suggesting a wild or feral cat removed from one's home(land) is cool, but I've also seen that it does not mean panther and to suggest some sort of anarcho-pantherism also confuses the understanding of it. I assume the use comes from the interviewees relation to the word in personal experience, so there's probably something I'm missing?