Toni Morrison’s novel, Paradise, is about how once racial purity was prideful, but now the race in Ruby has become stained. The community of Ruby was pushed out of Fairly because of the color of their skin, being too dark, and now they are repeating history by shunning the “stained” lighter-skinned citizens of their community. The 8-rock families desired a safe haven for their families, but people married outsiders creating a stain on Ruby’s black citizens. “The sign of racial purity they had taken for granted had become a stain,” was the Morgan brothers’ vision to maintain the racial purity within Ruby (194). The light-skinned citizens are labeled and shamed by the town, for example, Billie Delia being labeled “the fastest girl in town”