When my sister’s dates pulled into our driveway my mother would yell, “Here comes Honky! Land rights, healthcare, housing, and assistance all deal with blood quantum and how Indian one is ‘officially.’ Besides that, marrying Native was always what I dreamed of.

” My sister was always livid, embarrassed, but still, she went out with white men most of her adult life. I thought someday my Indian prince would come: the son of an activist in braids, with a mind full of theory and a stoic wisdom. For generations Native women could not govern their own bodies, because white men and officials dictated we were their wards.

There are rare exceptions: Louis and Jessica on , and the central African-American relationships on shows like Empire and Black-ish.

Emma Tessler, matchmaker and founder of online matchmaking service The Dating Ring, recently wrote that 90 percent of her clients confess to racial preferences in their partners, and 89.9 percent of them prefer white people. On Master of None, women of color are a romantic option for Dev’s friends, but the show doesn’t show us many of these partners.(Dev playfully calls her a “honky” before the couple goes to a honky-tonk bar, and we meet her white grandmother in one of the later episodes.) For a show that so deftly takes on race and how it influences how we see one another, and where every actor’s ethnicity informs his or her character, the decision to not engage with it romantically on any level feels like a missed opportunity.Master of None addresses how the world perceives Rachel dating an “ethnic,” as one man refers to Dev — wouldn’t it be great if there were also a conversation about Dev’s romantic preferences?Aziz Ansari’s Master of None was released on Netflix Friday, and from buying Plan B and apple juice with a one-night stand to doing a Skype interview in a public coffee shop, the show captures Millennial concerns in a thoughtful, non-condescending way.Ansari plays Dev, a struggling actor living in New York, whose circle of friends is made up of a bearded white guy, a Taiwanese-American, and a black lesbian with fabulous athleisure style.