Bustle's 10 SFF Books With Protagonists of Colour

When the possibilities are actually endless, why do most fantasy and novels revolve around white characters while excluding people of color? You want to write about powerful elves who lure humans into their world and keep them their for centuries just for the fun of it, but for some reason they all have white features? Even in futuristic, dystopian novels, science fiction books commonly use white characters who operate in settings that are based on present day western or European civilizations. We can do whatever we want, except tell a story from the perspective of a person of color?