[AppyPappy]

In his press statement, Atty. Shabazz presented eight demands

"Why, I'm not only a lawyer, I'm an attorney as well"

[Jezebelle]

The apellation of "attorney" is usually used in reference to a lawyer representing a specific person in a specific case. In other words, you hire a "lawyer" to handle a case, who, once that representation for that case commences, becomes YOUR "attorney". Obviously the idiot who wrote the piece doesn't know that or does know that but, in de rigueur black style, completely ignores that and accepted usage so he can spew disrespectful black idiomatic bullshit.