When my brother, Kamran, played high school football for a brief period in the 1990s, one of his coaches referred to him and a friend, also of Indian descent, as either “Seven” or “Eleven.”
No, those numbers were not splashed across their red-and-white jerseys. The coach just thought it was hilarious to nickname the two South Asian boys on the team after the 7-Eleven convenience store, where I’m guessing he may have spotted a Brown person or two behind the counter.
