Decatur native Alisha L. Gordon, author of "Pieces: Finding the Missing Piece is Easier than You Think" and writer of the blog Find the Pieces, wrote a scathing column on Huffington Post about her home state, Atlanta and the Troy Davis case.

She starts by praising Atlanta's progressiveness, then ticks off points in Georgia and Atlanta's history that have given the state a bad reputation on race relations, including the Atlanta riots, the hundreds of lychings and the Genarlow Wilson case.

She says the Troy Davis case fits into that mold. Davis was executed late Wednesday night for the 1989 murder of a law enforcement officer in Savannah. The case stirred national opposition because many prosecution witnesses recanted or changed their stories.

"As a native of Georgia, Decatur to be specific, I mourn for us," she wrote. "We've taken some steps back in our progression; there's a silent, suffocating fear that is hovering over our state. ... When will we become brave enough to do what's right, even if history has proven that doing what is right means standing alone?"

Check out her column in Huffington Post for everything she says.