It's not just that they are an ethnic 'minority' being used to fill a quota or agenda, because there are plenty of hotter or more talented. I never paid much attention to Mindy Kaling in The Office, but when she got her own show, I was like WTF she's ugly and not funny! Later I discovered she's married to one of the producers. Now I understand, just not why he married her? Later I had a similar feeling when someone was watching blackish. The actress who plays the mother is frightening and talentless...So I IMDB's her and turns out her name is Tracee Eliss Ross, who happens to be Diana Ross's daughter.