They don't use POC to tell the stories of POC because with as of now it wouldn't fly. Unfortunately, shows with a POC protagonist get pushed aside as being a show just for those POC. The straight white male protagonist still is Hollywood's go-to guy, but shows like Buffy, Orange and Orphan Black challenge gender. There's a sitcom coming out about a Taiwanese family, and it's the first major sitcom about an Asian-American family. Orange was Netflix's first comedy series, and it could only have happened on Netflix (see many POC on HBO?) We're still in an era where the white protagonist is prime, but in Orange what they do is have Piper (the blonde's) story used as a framework to tell the stories of all the other female inmates which inform the main action in the prison. I think you would really, really like it - lots of sexualities are represented, the main character is bisexual and there are lots of lesbians with a range of physical appearances and stories and - what is being seen as the most remarkable - it has a trans woman (Laverne Cox, the actress, was recently on the cover of Time for an article on trans people). And while Piper may be the official "protagonist," it really is more of an ensemble show.

I need to get OiTNB icons now.